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The Great Depression

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1JoseBuendia
apr 27, 2010, 2:26 pm

Could anyone suggest good books on the Depression? I am more concerned with reading about everyday life rather than the economics of the period.

Thanks.

2defaults
apr 27, 2010, 2:37 pm

Studs Terkel's Hard Times.

3barney67
apr 27, 2010, 7:27 pm

The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes

4xenchu
Bewerkt: apr 28, 2010, 5:19 pm

I have not read this yet but it has been recommended on LT. The title is Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression by David E. Kyvig.

ETA: Touchstones don't seem to be working.
EETA: Edited to change Touchstones. You learn something new every day -- if you're lucky.

5TLCrawford
Bewerkt: apr 28, 2010, 8:05 am

Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940

Sometimes the touchstones are touchy about punctuation.

Oh, that looks like a good suggestion, it is going on my wishlist. Thanks

6kristenkim03
apr 30, 2010, 7:28 pm

This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but try Pamela Kehrberg's Rooted in Dust. It is about the Dust Bowl and Depression in Kansas.

7MarianV
apr 30, 2010, 9:04 pm

Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn covers a longer period of time, but includes the Depression.

8ALinNY458
apr 30, 2010, 11:09 pm

An excellent book about life in the Depression Era Dustbowl is the The Worst Hard Time by Tomoth Egan.

9steiac
mei 2, 2010, 9:20 pm

I second the endorsement of The Worst Hard Time. It won the National Book Award a couple years ago.

10audreyl1969
mei 3, 2010, 2:56 pm

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - far better than the film itself.