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America 1933 : the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the shaping of the New Deal
Title:
America 1933 : the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the shaping of the New Deal
ISBN:
9781439196014
Edition:
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Free Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
xvi, 316 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Muffled figures, bitter winds -- View to a New Deal -- Part of the story -- Coal country -- Strandees -- The ghosts of Wall Street -- America's Siberia -- "The richest village in the world" -- The stricken South -- Empire of misery -- Prospects.
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Summary:
The first account of the remarkable 18-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the unprecedented ravages; an indelible portrait of an unprecedented crisis.
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