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

ISBN: 9780807840993 | 0807840998
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
Pub. Date: 2/1/1983

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SummaryTable of Contents
Letters written by ordinary citizens to President Roosevelt and other government officials depict the conditions of life in America during the Depression
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Prefacexi
Acknowledgmentsxv
Introduction1(32)
Part I: The Early Depression33(16)
Reactions to Hoover and Economic Breakdown
35(14)
Part II: Conditions of Life in the Thirties49(72)
Proud But Frightened: Middle-Class Hardship
51(16)
The Grass Roots: Rural Depression
67(12)
A Worse Depression: Black Americans in the 1930s
79(16)
To Be Old, Sick, and Poor
95(18)
The Forgotten Children
113(8)
Part III: Reactions to the Depression121(80)
Attitudes toward Relief
123(20)
The Conservative
143(12)
The Desperate
155(18)
The Cynical
173(10)
The Rebellious
183(18)
Part IV: The ``Forgotten Man'' Looks at Roosevelt201(34)
The Unconvinced
203(12)
``Our Savior''
215(20)
Notes235(8)
Sources of Letters243(4)
Index247

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