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Author Watkins, T. H. (Tom H.), 1936-

Title The hungry years : a narrative history of the Great Depression in America / T.H. Watkins
Edition First Owl Books edition
Published New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2003

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Description xvi, 587 pages : illustrations
Contents Prelude: Careening Down Main Street, 1929 -- Pt. I. In the Crucible -- Pt. II. Holding Up the Walls -- Pt. III. The Ploughland Curve -- Postlude: Dismantling the Dream, 1939
Summary "The Hungry Years tells the story of the Great Depression through the eyes of the people who lived through it. Less concerned with the power brokers in Washington than with the daily struggles of ordinary people at the grassroots level across America, it draws on little-known oral histories, memoirs, local press, and scholarly monographs to capture the voices of men and women in a time of extreme crisis. The result is a richly detailed narrative that traces the stages of the disaster chronologically without losing touch with the personal wounds it inflicted or the ways in which people responded."--BOOK JACKET
Notes "An Owl book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [523]-555) and index
Subject Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Personal narratives.
SUBJECT United States -- History -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140299
United States -- History -- 1919-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140298
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140517
United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140516
Genre/Form Personal narratives.
ISBN 0805065067