The hungry years
Subtitle: a narrative history of the Great Depression in America
By: T.H. Watkins.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.; Henry Holt and Company
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 587
Subjects: Depressions -- 1929 -- United States; Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Personal narratives; United States -- History -- 1933-1945; United States -- History -- 1919-1933; United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945; United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932
Description: "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: Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-555) and index.
"A Marian Wood book."