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Down & out in the Great Depression, letters from the "forgotten man", edited by Robert S. McElvaine

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Down & out in the Great Depression, letters from the "forgotten man", edited by Robert S. McElvaine

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Down & out in the Great Depression

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

8430299

Responsibility statement

edited by Robert S. McElvaine

Sub title

letters from the "forgotten man"

Summary

A collection of letters by the ordinary men, women, and children who suffered through the Great Depression

Table Of Contents

Reactions to Hoover and economic breakdown -- Proud but frightened: Middle-class hardship -- The grass roots: Rural depression -- A worse depression: Black Americans in the 1930's -- To be old, sick, poor -- The forgotten children -- Attitudes toward relief -- The conservative -- The desperate -- THe Cynical -- The rebellious -- The unconvinced -- "Our Savior"

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Down and out in the Great DepressionLetters from the "forgotten man"

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