The Great Depression: America in the 1930s - Hardcover

Watkins, T.H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316924539 ISBN 13: 9780316924535

Publisher: Little, Brown US, 1993

Synopsis

A companion volume to the fall PBS series chronicles the devastation caused by the nation's most serious economic upheaval, offering parallels with America's present economic woes. By the author of Righteous Pilgrim. TV tie-in. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo.

About this title

Review:

'A discerning, information-packed and emotionally charged survey of America's crucible. . . The photographs and their long, illuminating captions do a fine job of conveying America's dark night. . . . Heartfelt and wide-ranging, and timely as well, as we continue to grapple with the nurturing sort of government put in place by FDR' - Kirkus
'A fine survey. . . Watkins is at his best in his ability to recapture the miseries and the hopes, the fears and the ideals, of individual people who lived in a world that may have been physically almost unrecognizable - no interstate highways, no shopping malls . . . He has used to the full both documentary material turned up by the TV researchers and the incomparable holdings of films, still photography, and sound archives in the Library of Congress and elsewhere' - Godfrey Hodgson, Washington Post Book World '

Book Description:

The definitive history of the Great Depression

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown US
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0316924539
• ISBN 13: 9780316924535
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1