The Depression and New Deal: A History in Documents

by Robert S. McElvaine

Book Overview

The Depression and New Deal is a collection of primary sources documenting American life during the longest and deepest economic collapse in American history. From the prosperity and rampant consumerism of the 1920s, the book moves forward to cover the double shock of the stock market crash and dust bowl and then on to the recovery efforts of Roosevelt's New Deal. Some of the most revealing testaments to the times-including songs by Woody Guthrie,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195104935
• ISBN13: 9780195104936
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.0" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Super, Super source book

This book gives you all the sources you will need on the Great Depression. Really engaging, all the entries are fun to read. Lots of variety in the types of sources. I can't recommend it highly enough.