The American People in the Great Depression

by David M. Kennedy

Book Overview

On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear, Kennedy tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of that unprecedented calamity.

Kennedy vividly demonstrates that the economic crisis of the 1930s was more than a reaction to the excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before the Crash, America's unbridled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195168925
• ISBN13: 9780195168921
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.4"