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The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America - Softcover

Watkins, T.

 
9780805065060: The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0805065067 ISBN 13: 9780805065060
Verlag: Holt, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

"A big-hearted, abundant narrative . . . Watkins draws compelling portraits of people oscillating between despair and hope and a political culture in the midst of historic transformation."
-The Washington Post Book World

It was the worst of times and the best of times. It was an era of unprecedented crisis and a time of unprecedented courage. In a single, comprehensive volume, The Hungry Years tells the story of the Great Depression through the eyes of the people who lived it. Less concerned with the power brokers in Washington than with the daily struggles of ordinary people at the grassroots across America, it draws on little-known oral histories, memoirs, local press, and scholarly monographs to capture the voices of men and women in a time of extreme crisis. The result is a richly detailed narrative that traces the stages of the disaster chronologically without losing touch with the personal wounds it inflicted or the ways in which people responded.

Humane and compassionate, brilliantly researched, full of story and anecdote, The Hungry Years puts the reader at the very heart of the maelstrom that was the American depression.

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The author of numerous books, T.H. Watkins (1936-2000) was perhaps best-known as the author of Righteous Pilgrim, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was the Wallace Stegner Distinguished Professor of Western American Studies at Montana State University.

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Verlag
Holt
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805065067
ISBN 13 
9780805065060
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
612
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