Breaking the Slump
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: May 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780231113427
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Baseball; Social history; 20th century; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Sports & Recreation; History: American; USA; Baseball - History; United States - General; Sports & Recreation / General; History; United States
First sentence: WE CAN BEGIN with the monumental truism that the economic debacle of the 1930s-what came to be known as the Great Depression-was unprecedented in its magnitude and duration, the worst thing to happen to the American people since the calamitous Civil War.