The Depression and New Deal
Subtitle: a history in documents
By: Robert S. McElvaine
Series: Pages from history; Pages from history
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781423775249
Subjects: Social life and customs; Depressions; Depression <Wirtschaft>; New Deal, 1933-1939; Sources; Social conditions; History; HISTORY
Notes: "First printed as an Oxford paperback in 2003"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-184) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: What is a document; title: How to read a document; title: New Era and its undertaker: Twenties, the crash, and Herbert Hoover; title: Keep the consumer dissatisfied; title: Herbert Hoover's optimism; title: Collapse; title: "When a horse balks "; title: Stormy weather: Depression life; title: Hooverville; title: City breadlines; title: Rural hardship; title: "War against the emergency:" New Deal: Roosevelt's first inaugural address; title: First fireside chat; title: "Social economics of the New Deal"; title: Open letter to President Roosevelt; title: Social Security Act; title: W.P.A.; title: "And I welcome their hatred:" Business and the New Deal : American Liberty League; title: Defending the New Deal; title: Schechter Poultry Corp V U.S.; title: Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigns against big business; title: Which side are you on?: Labor organizing in the thirties: National Labor Relations Act; title: Call for industrial unionism; title: Finding common ground; title: "Dis what de union done"; title: Production for use, not profit: Left: Whither the American writer?; title: "I have seen black hands"; title: "End of poverty in civilization"; title: "Ballad of Roosevelt"; title: Quick fix: Panaceas: "Cure for depressions"; title: Lecture on social justice; title: Share our wealth; title: " Woman can change better'n a man:" Women, men and children in the depression: Birth rates; title: Maternalism; title: "Boy and girl tramps of America"; title: "Will women lose their jobs?; title: Negro was born In depression: Race and ethnicity in the thirties: New pattern of life for the Indian; title: Getting by; title: Mexican-American dream; title: Mary Tsukamoto's story; title: Down on the farm: Rural depression: Rebellion in the Corn Belt; title: "Dust bowl diary"; title: Woody Guthrie on the dust bowl; title: Art for the millions: Culture in the thirties: Superman: New Deal hero; title: Joe Louis uncovers dynamite; title: Federal patronage of the arts; title: Mother and father of the nation?: Attitudes toward the Roosevelts: Pre-election niew; title: Letter from Wisconsin; title: Memorandum on "court packing"; title: "My day"; title: Praise for Eleanor Roosevelt; title: "Social values more noble than mere monetary profit": Great Depression and American Values: "Forgotten man" radio address; title: Memories of a southern white girl; title: changed social life of a migrant camp; title: "Middletown in transition"; title: "Spirit of charity"; title: "Over the rainbow"; title: Chronology.