America 1933
Subtitle: the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the shaping of the New Deal
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781439196014
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Muffled figures, bitter winds; title: View to a New Deal; title: Part of the story; title: Coal country; title: Strandees; title: The ghosts of Wall Street; title: America's Siberia; title: "The richest village in the world"; title: The stricken South; title: Empire of misery; title: Epilogue: Prospects