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The 1930s /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gerdes, Louise I., 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, [2000]
Series:America's decades.
Subjects:
United States > Civilization > 1918-1945.
Nineteen thirties.
Table of Contents:
  • 1929, a year of transition / by Joe Alex Morris
  • Between two worlds : America during the Hoover years / by Geoffrey Perrett
  • The politics of change : Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt / by Wayne S. Cole
  • The changing mood of America : the repeal of Prohibition / by Thomas R. Pegram
  • Causes of the Great Depression / by Adrian A. Paradis
  • Depression farming : drought, dust, and displacement / by T.H. Watkins
  • The migrant youth of depression America / by Thomas Minehan
  • A New Deal for the American people / by Alan Brinkley
  • The emergence of federal public assistance / by John F. Bauman and Thomas H. Coode
  • Life in the Civilian Conservation Corps / by Donald Dale Jackson
  • The Works Progress Administration : criticism and praise / by Robert S. McElvaine
  • Radio in the 1930s : an overview / by Tom Lewis
  • Listening in the 1930s : Americans remember the radio / by Ray Barfield
  • Creating consumers : the radio soap opera / by Marilyn Lavin
  • The press-radio war / by Gwenyth Jackaway
  • Martians invade the airwaves in 1938 / by Edward Oxford
  • Talk radio in the 1930s / by Stephen Goode
  • The crime of the century : the Lindbergh baby kidnapping / by James D. Horan
  • The trials of the Scottsboro boys / by Douglas O. Linder
  • Gangsters and G-men : fighting crime in the thirties / by Frederick Lewis Allen
  • Labor unrest during the Depression / by Howard Zinn
  • The Hollywood studio system adapts to sound / by Frank E. Beaver
  • Fighting crime in the comics / by Herb Galewitz
  • Gangsters, bums, and heroes in baseball / by Robert T. Smith
  • Depression jazz : from swing to hot jazz revival / by Burton W. Peretti
  • The legacy of the New Deal / by Roger Biles
  • "The world of tomorrow" : the 1939 New York World's Fair / by Richard M. Ketchum
  • Changing foreign policy : from isolation to intervention / by Gerald D. Nash.