The Great Depression: A Diary

by Benjamin Roth and Daniel B. Roth

Book Overview

When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary.

This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression--one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586489011
• ISBN13: 9781586489014
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"