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The Great Depression and the New Deal : America's economy in crisis /

"In 1933, in his first inaugural address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, "... the only thing we have to fear is fear itself..." Yet, Roosevelt knew that the fear he spoke of was grounded in reality. With one-third of the nation's workforce unemployed, grown men scr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reis, Ronald A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Chelsea House, 2011.
Series:Milestones in American history.
Subjects:
United States > History > 1933-1945 > Juvenile literature.
United States > Economic conditions > 1918-1945 > Juvenile literature.
Depressions > 1929 > United States > Juvenile literature.
New Deal, 1933-1939 > Juvenile literature.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Down and Out
  • The Roaring Twenties
  • Hooverville
  • A New Deal
  • Frances Perkins
  • Employment Programs
  • The Dust Bowl
  • Roosevelt's Radical Opponents
  • National Pastimes
  • World War II and the Depression's End/