America 1933 : the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the shaping of the New Deal
(2013)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.917/GOLAY,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Free Press, 2013
EDITION
First Free Press hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
xvi, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781439196014 (hbk.) :, 143919601X (hbk.), 9781439196014, 143919601X :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Muffled figures, bitter winds -- View to a New Deal -- Part of the story -- Coal country -- Strandees -- The ghosts of Wall Street -- America's Siberia -- "The richest village in the world" -- The stricken South -- Empire of misery -- Prospects
The first account of the remarkable 18-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the unprecedented ravages; an indelible portrait of an unprecedented crisis