Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America

by John F. Kasson

Book Overview

Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black laborer's cabin in South Carolina and young Andy Warhol's house in Pittsburgh to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's recreation room in Washington, DC, and gangster "Bumpy" Johnson's Harlem apartment. A few years later her smile...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393240797
• ISBN13: 9780393240795
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.6"