The Great Depression: America 1929-1941

✍ Scribed by McElvaine, Robert S

• Book ID: 106925774
• Publisher: Broadway
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0812923278

✦ Synopsis

From Wikipedia

The Great Depression: America, 1929–1941 (ISBN 978-0812923278) is a 1984 history of the Great Depression by acclaimed historian Robert S. McElvaine. In this interpretive history, McElvaine discusses the causes and the results of the worst depression in American history, covering the time from 1929 to 1941. He examines the causes of this catacylmic event, its impact upon the American people, and the political, governmental, and cultural responses to it. He comes down firmly in favor of the "demand-side" argument that maldistribution of income in the 1920s having left the bulk of potential consumers with too small a share of national income to buy all that mass production was putting on the market was the principal cause of the collapse. Building on his innovative use of letters written by "ordinary" Americans during the Depression that were collected in his first book, Down and Out in the Great Depression, McElvaine takes readers into the experience of Depression victims to an extent never before achieved. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon

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Review

A _New York Times_ Notable Book

“It would be hard to find a fairer or more balanced account of how the American people and their leaders learned to grapple with their greatest economic crisis.” —_New York Times Book Review_

“A thorough work of scholarship, a lively story, and a highly original feat of analysis.”—_Business Week _

“This is essential reading.” —Studs Terkel

From the Trade Paperback edition.