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The forgotten man a new history of the Great Depression

It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Autho...

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Main Author: Shlaes, Amity
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper Perennial, 2008.
Edition:1st Harper Perennial ed.
Subjects:
United States > History > 1919-1933.
United States > History > 1933-1945.
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945.
United States > Economic conditions > 1918-1945.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cast of characters
  • Timeline
  • The beneficent hand
  • The junket
  • The accident
  • The hour of the vallar
  • The experimenter
  • A river utopia
  • A year of prosecutions
  • The chicken verses the eagle
  • Roosevelt's wager
  • Mellon's gift
  • Roosevelt's revolution
  • The man in the Brooks Brothers shirt
  • Black Tuesday, again
  • "Brace up, America"
  • Willkie's wager
  • Coda.

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