Down & out in the Great Depression : letters from the "forgotten man" /

A collection of letters by the ordinary men, women, and children who suffered through the Great Depression.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: McElvaine, Robert S., 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1983]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Reactions to Hoover and economic breakdown
  • Proud but frightened: Middle-class hardship
  • The grass roots: Rural depression
  • A worse depression: Black Americans in the 1930's
  • To be old, sick, poor
  • The forgotten children
  • Attitudes toward relief
  • The conservative
  • The desperate
  • THe Cynical
  • The rebellious
  • The unconvinced
  • "Our Savior".