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Down and Out in the Great Depression : Letters from the Forgotten Man

ISBN: 9780807858912 | 0807858919
Edition: 25th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
Pub. Date: 2/25/2008

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SummaryTable of Contents
"Down and Out in the Great Depression" is a moving, revealing collection of letters by the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through one of the greatest periods of hardship in American history. Sifting through some 15,000 letters from government and private sources, Robert McElvaine has culled nearly 200 communications that best show the problems, thoughts, and emotions of ordinary people during this time.Unlike views of Depression life "from the bottom up" that rely on recollections recorded several decades later, this book captu... MORE
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Foreword to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Editionp. xi
Prefacep. xv
Acknowledgmentsp. xix
Introductionp. 1
The Early Depressionp. 33
Reactions to Hoover and Economic Breakdownp. 35
Conditions of Life in the Thirtiesp. 49
Proud But Frightened: Middle-Class Hardshipp. 51
The Grass Roots: Rural Depressionp. 67
A Worse Depression: Black Americans in the 1930sp. 79
To Be Old, Sick, and Poorp. 95
The Forgotten Childrenp. 113
Reactions to the Depressionp. 121
Attitudes toward Reliefp. 123
The Conservativep. 143
The Desperatep. 155
The Cynicalp. 173
The Rebelliousp. 183
The "Forgotten Man" Looks at Rooseveltp. 201
The Unconvincedp. 203
"Our Savior"p. 215
Notesp. 235
Sources of Lettersp. 243
Indexp. 247
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