ed. Daniel Aaron and Robert Bendiner (1970). The Strenuous Decade; A Social and Intellectual Record of the 1930's. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 537 p.). Nineteen thirties; United States--Civilization--1918-1945; United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Frederick Lewis Allen (1986). Since Yesterday; The Nineteen-Thirties in America, September 3, 1929-September 3, 1939. (New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 400 p. [orig. pub. 1940]). Nineteen thirties; United States--History--1919-1933; United States--Social conditions--1933-1945; United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

Rita Barnard (1995). The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance: Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 271 p.). Fearing, Kenneth, 1902-1961 --Political and social views; West, Nathanael, 1903-1940 --Political and social views; American literature--20th century--History and criticism; Popular literature--United States--History and criticism; Literature and society--United States--History--20th century; Popular culture--United States--History--20th century; Social problems in literature; Depressions in literature; Economics in literature.

Robert Bendiner (1967). Just Around the Corner; A Highly Selective History of the Thirties. (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 268 p.). United States--History--1919-1933; United States--History--1933-1945.

Andrew Bergman (1971). We're in the Money: Depression America and Its Films. (New York: New York University Press, 200 p.). Motion pictures--United States--History; Depressions--1929--United States.

Michael A. Bernstein (1987). The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-1939. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 269 p.). Depressions--1929--United States; United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

Piers Brendon (2000). The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s. (New York, NY: Knopf, 795 p.). Keeper of the Churchill Archives and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. World politics, 1933-1945; National socialism; Europe--History--1918-1945; Japan--History--1926-1945; Soviet Union--History--1925-1953.

Lester V. Chandler (1970). America's Greatest Depression, 1929-1941. (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 260 p.). Depressions--1929--United States.

Ronald Edsforth (2006). The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression. (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 324 p.). United States -- History -- 1933-1945; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945; United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945; New Deal, 1933-1939; Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. Contents From new era prosperity to a world in depression -- The politics of the Great Depression -- Why the old deal failed -- America impoverished -- Out of disorder, a New Deal -- A New Deal in one hundred days -- The problem of recovery -- Reconstructing capitalism -- Mass movements and the New Deal liberalism -- The second New Deal -- The end of the New Deal.

John Kenneth Galbraith; with a new introduction by the author (1997). The Great Crash, 1929. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 206 p.). Depressions--1929--United States; Stock Market Crash, 1929.

Ed. Louise I. Gerdes (2000). The 1930s. (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 368 p.). Nineteen thirties; United States--Civilization--1918-1945.

Eli Ginzberg; with an introduction by Ben B. Seligman (2004). The Unemployed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 418 p. [orig. pub. 1943]). Unemployed--New York (State)--New York--Psychological aspects; Unemployed--New York (State)--New York--Sociological aspects; Unemployed--New York (State)--New York--Psychological aspects--Case studies; Unemployed--New York (State)--New York--Sociological aspects--Case studies; Depressions--1929--New York (State)--New York; Charities--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century; Unemployed--United States--Psychological aspects; Unemployed--United States--Sociological aspects; Depressions--1929--United States; Charities--United States--History--20th century.

James David Horan (1962). The Desperate Years, A Pictorial History of the Thirties. (New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 288 p.). History, Modern--20th century; United States--History--1919-1933; United States--History--1933-1945; United States--History--Pictorial works.

Alan Jenkins (1975). The Thirties. (London, UK: Heinemann, 240 p.). United States--Civilization--1918-1945; United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945; Great Britain--Social life and customs--1918-1945; Great Britain--Civilization--20th century.

Matthew Josephson (1967). Infidel in the Temple; A Memoir of the Nineteen-Thirties. (New York, NY: Knopf, 513 p.). United States--History--1933-1945.

Murray Kempton; introduction by David Remnick (2004). Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties. (New York, NY: New York Review Books, 432 p. [orig. pub. 1955]). Former Columnist for Newsday, Regular Contributor to The New York Review of Books.  Subversive activities--United States--History--20th century; Radicals--United States--Biography; Communists--United States--Biography; Labor unions--United States--History--20th century; Nineteen thirties; United States--History--1933-1945; United States--History--1919-1933. 1955 re-evaluation of the radical movements and personalities of the 1930's. Focus on "ruins and monuments" as Paul Robeson, Whittaker Chambers, Alger Hiss, Walter Reuther.

David M. Kennedy (1999). Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2 vols.). Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. Depressions--1929--United States; New Deal, 1933-1939; World War, 1939-1945--United States.; United States--History--1919-1933; United States--History--1933-1945. Contents: Pt. 1. The American people in the Great Depression -- Pt. 2. The American people in World War II.

Charles P. Kindleberger (1986). The World in Depression, 1929-1939. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 355 p.). Depressions -- 1929; Economic history -- 1918-1945.

Michhel Lesy (2002). Long Time Coming: A Photographic Portrait of America, 1935-1943. (New York, NY: Norton, 479 p.). Professor of Literary Journalism (Hampshire College). Documentary photography--United States; United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945--Pictorial; United States--Social conditions--1933-1945--Pictorial works; United States--Rural conditions--Pictorial works. Work is based on photographs made between 1935 and 1943 by a team of photographers employed by the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA).

Kriste Lindenmeyer (2005). The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s. (Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 304 p.). Children--United States--Social conditions--20th century; Teenagers--United States--Social conditions--20th century; Family--United States--History--20th century; Depressions--1929--United States; New Deal, 1933-1939; Teenagers--United States--Biography; Children--United States--Biography; United States--Social conditions--1918-1932; United States--Social conditions--1933-1945; United States--Biography. How commercial, educational, and federal policy developments in the 1930s laid foundations for the wider spread of a sheltered childhood and adolescence in the years after World War II.

Ed. John Lucas (1978). The 1930s: A Challenge to Orthodoxy. (New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 268 p.). English literature--20th century--History and criticism; Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century; Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936; Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952.

James R. McGovern (2000). And a Time for Hope: Americans in the Great Depression. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 354 p.). Emeritus Professor of History (University of West Florida). National characteristics, American; United States--History--1933-1945; United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945; United States--Social conditions--1933-1945. Book is really about the New Deal years of the 1930s, not the entire Depression. Author focuses on institutions in the 1930s not merely as coping mechanisms but as central features of American life whose evolution and various changes are essential developments in the country's history.

Michael E. Parrish (1992). Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941. (New York, NY: Norton, 529 p.). Depressions--1929--United States; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States--History--1919-1933; United States--History--1933-1945.

John Raeburn (2006). A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography. (Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 370 p.). Professor of American Studies and English (University of Iowa). Photography, Artistic; United States--Pictorial works. Cultural and artistic developments interacted to make 1930s "the most vigorous and creative decade in American photography's history".

Basil Rauch (1975). The History of the New Deal, 1933-1938. (New York, NY: Octagon Books, 368 p. [orig. pub. 1944]). New Deal, 1933-1939; United States--Politics and government--1933-1945; United States--Economic policy; United States--Social policy.

Studs Terkel (2000). Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. (New York, NY: Norton, 462 p. [orig. pub. 1970]). Depressions--1929--United States--Personal narratives; United States--History--1933-1945; United States--History--1919-1933; United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945; United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.

T. H. Watkins (1993). The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 375 p.). Depressions--1929--United States; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States--History--1933-1945; United States--History--1919-1933.

--- (1999). The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America. (New York, NY: Holt, 587 p.). Wallace Stegner Distinguished Professor of Western American Studies at Montana State University. Depressions--1929--United States; Depressions--1929--United States--Personal narratives; United States--History--1933-1945; United States--History--1919-1933; United States--Social conditions--1933-1945; United States--Social conditions--1918-1932.

Edmund Wilson; edited with an introd. by Leon Edel (1980). The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period. (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 753 p.). Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Willam H. Young and Nancy K. Young (2005). Music of the Great Depression. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 304 p.). Popular music--United States--1921-1930--History and criticism; Popular music--United States--1931-1940--History and criticism; Depressions--1929--United States. Contents: Music and media : radio, sheet music, and recordings -- Popular hits and standards -- Music from Broadway and Hollywood -- The rise of swing and the triumph of big bands -- Roots music -- The classical tradition and the Federal Music Project -- Outstanding musical artists from the 1930s.

--- (2007). The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Popular culture--United States--History--20th century--Encyclopedias; United States--Civilization--1918-1945--Encyclopedias; United States--Intellectual life--20th century--Encyclopedias; United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945--Encyclopedias; United States--Biography--Encyclopedias; Depressions--1929--United States--Encyclopedias.

William H. Young with Nancy K. Young (2002). The 1930s. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 343 p.). Popular culture--United States--History--20th century; Nineteen thirties; United States--Civilization--1918-1945. Period ushered in by the Wall Street Crash in October 1929 and ended--symbolically--by the outbreak of World War Two with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939.   

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