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Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929
Maury Klein - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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The first major history of the Crash in over a decade, Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe. The book... |
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The Great Depression (Turning Points in World History)
Don Nardo - Greenhaven Press
Format: Paperback
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Grade 10 Up-A collection of essays by noted scholars that looks at varying issues surrounding the era, including "Rural Poverty, Drought, and Migration"; "The Struggles of American Blacks"; "Depression-Era Cinema Reflected Social Values"; and "Social Security... |
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Sea Glass: A Novel
Anita Shreve
Format: Print book
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The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on the beach, Sexton risks everything they own to buy the hou |
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Amity Shlaes - Harper Perennial; Trade Paperback Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance... |
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The Great Depression
Robert S McElvaine
Format: Hardcover
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A perennial backlist performer.From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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We Had Everything But Money
Deb Mulvey
Format: Book
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Personal accounts and anecdotes offer insight into life during the Great Depression, describing such events as the closing of the banks, looking for a job, braving the ""Dust Bowl,"" and discovering homemade fun. |
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The Hungry Years: America in an Age of Crisis, 1929-1939
T. H. Watkins - Henry Holt and Co.; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed author of Righteous Pilgrim delivers this dramatic account of the Great Depression as seen by those who lived through it. Less concerned with the power brokers in Washington than with the daily struggles of ordinary people at the grass roots, The Hungry Years draws on little-known... |
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Loon Lake
E L Doctorow
Format: Print book
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A magical view of American life and passions between the wars, as a man living through the Great Depression discovers a haunt of the country's rich. The author has written 10 other novels including "Billy Bathgate", and has received numerous literary awards and honours. |
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Kitchen Privileges : A Memoir
Mary Higgins Clark - Simon & Schuster; 1ST edition
Format: Deckle Edge]
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In her long-awaited memoir, Mary Higgins Clark, America's beloved and bestselling Queen of Suspense, recounts the early experiences that shaped her as a person and influenced her as a writer. Even as a young girl, growing up in the Bronx, Mary Higgins Clark knew she wanted to be a writer.... |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Joel Coen - Touchstone
Format: DVD
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Disenchanted with the daily drudge of crushing rocks on a prison farm in Mississippi, the dapper, silver-tongued Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney, THE PERFECT STORM) busts loose. Except he's still shackled to his own chain-mates from the chain gang -- bad-tempered Pete (John Turturro,... |
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Escape
Lorena McCourtney
Format: Paperback
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Beth Curtis promised her brother and his wife that if anything should happen to them, she would raise their son as if he were her own. So when a double tragedy leads to their deaths at the height of the Great Depression, a brokenhearted Beth steps forward to keep her vow. |
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The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
John Steinbeck - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized - and sometimes outraged - millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbecks Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma... |
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Dust Bowl Diary
Ann Marie Low
Format: Book
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"Life in what the newspapers call 'the Dust Bowl' is becoming a gritty nightmare," Ann Marie Low wrote in 1934. Her diary vividly captures that "gritty nightmare" as it was lived by one rural family - and by millions of other Americans. |
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The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
Jonathan Alter - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of a political miracle -- the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. The Great Depression had caused a national breakdown. With... |
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Hoover Dam: An American Adventure
Joseph E. Stevens - University of Oklahoma Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken—the construction of Hoover Dam. Through the worst years of the Great Depression as many as five thousand laborers... |
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Waterborne
Bruce Murkoff - Knopf; Stated First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A panorama of human desire and enterprise, Bruce Murkoff’s first novel is exceptional for its ambition, its grasp of history and, above all, its stunning array of characters. Waterborne is set in the Great Depression, and culminates at the Boulder Dam: the greatest... |
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