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The Great Depression (1929-1941) / editor, Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD.

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2022]

©2022

2 volumes (xviii, 527 pages) : illustrations, portrait ; 28 cm.

Offers in-depth analysis of fifty-nine documents, including book excerpts, speeches, court rulings, legal texts, legislative acts, essays, newspaper and magazine articles, and interviews that help define the events leading to the Great Depression, its effects on the economy and show the thinking of leaders and politicians at that time.

Defining documents in American history

Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Sources.

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 -- Sources.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1929-1933 -- Sources.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 -- Sources.

Reference works.

Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-517) and index.

Volume 1 -- Publisher's Note -- Editor's Introduction -- Contributors -- Banks and Bankers in the Spotlight -- "Everybody Ought to Be Rich" -- President Hoover Responds to the Stock Market Crash -- Message regarding the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act -- "Their Confidence Was Justified" -- FDR on Government's Role in the Economy -- Testimony of Charles Mitchell -- Resolution of North Dakota Legislature Regarding the Banking Crisis -- FDR-Fireside Chat on the Banking Crisis -- Depression and Desperation -- "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" -- "Women on the Breadlines" -- Eleanor Roosevelt: "What Ten Million Women Want" -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on "The Forgotten Man" -- Franklin Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address -- The Repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans -- The Big Strike -- United We Eat-the Phenomenon of Unemployed Leagues -- Letter Regarding the Needs of Puerto Ricans in New York -- Letter from a Dust Bowl Survivor -- "An 'Army' Seizes the Capitol" -- New Deal Solutions -- President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat Outlining the New Deal -- Order Creating the Federal Subsistence Homesteads Program -- Letter-Report Concerning the Tennessee Valley -- FDR's Address to the Bankers' Convention at Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. -- Address of Joseph P. Kennedy before the Boston Chamber of Commerce 1934 -- FDR on Social Security -- Frances Perkins on "Social Insurance" -- Executive Order Establishing the Rural Electrification Administration -- Indians at Work -- A New Deal for American Indians -- A Negro in the CCC -- Letter Regarding Assistance to the Poor -- FDR-Address to Farmers -- FDR on Drought Conditions -- Memories of the Flint Sit-Down Strike -- "I'd Rather Not Be on Relief" -- Dear Mrs. Roosevelt -- Volume 2 -- Voices of Dissent -- Upton Sinclair on Ending Poverty in California.2 aTwo Radio "Sermons" -- "Share Our Wealth" Address -- "A Black Inventory of the New Deal" -- Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States -- Politics and Renewal -- Alf Landon's Acceptance Speech as the Republican Nominee for President -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Address at Camden, New Jersey -- FDR's Second Inaugural Address -- President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on the Current Recession -- Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 -- Fair Labor Standards Act -- "My Hopes for the CCC" -- Social and Cultural Developments -- National Archives Act -- "Measuring Public Opinion" -- Honoring Jesse Owens -- From the Federal Writers' Project: Cape Cod Pilot -- Letter from Louise E. Jefferson to Secretary Harold Ickes regarding Marian Anderson's Concert -- World of Tomorrow: 1939 World's Fair Essay by E.B. White -- Changing Ground -- Telegram from Thirty-Six American Writers to President Roosevelt concerning Nazi Germany -- Albert Einstein's Letter to President Roosevelt regarding Developments in Nuclear Science -- The Century of the Common Man -- Interview with a Republican: His Feelings about Government, the Economy, and the World Situation -- The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund-Founding Articles of Agreement -- Appendixes -- Chronological List -- Web Resources -- Bibliography -- Index.

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