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Down & out in the Great Depression : letters from the forgotten man /
Down and Out in the Great Depression is a moving, revealing collection of letters by the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through one of the greatest periods of hardship in American history. Sifting through some 15,000 letters from government and private sources, Robert McElvaine has...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2008.
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| Edición: | 25th anniversary ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Down and Out in the Great Depression is a moving, revealing collection of letters by the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through one of the greatest periods of hardship in American history. Sifting through some 15,000 letters from government and private sources, Robert McElvaine has culled nearly 200 communications that best show the problems, thoughts, and emotions of ordinary people during this time. Unlike views of Depression life "from the bottom up" that rely on recollections recorded several decades later, this book captures the daily anguish of people during the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 251 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807898819 0807898813 9781469604817 1469604817 |