America 1933 the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the shaping of the New Deal

The first account of the remarkable 18-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the unprecedented ravages; an indelible portrait of an unprecedented crisis.

Main Author: Golay, Michael, 1951-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Free Press, c2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: muffled figures, bitter winds
  • View to a New Deal
  • Part of the story
  • Coal country
  • Strandees
  • The ghosts of Wall Street
  • America's Siberia
  • "The richest village in the world"
  • The stricken South
  • Empire of misery
  • Epilogue: prospects.