The Great Depression (1929-1941)

2 volumes

28 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-517) and index

Volume 1 -- Publisher's Note -- Editor's Introduction -- Contributors -- Banks and Bankers in the Spotlight -- "Everybody Ought to Be Rich" -- President Hoover Responds to the Stock Market Crash -- Message regarding the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act -- "Their Confidence Was Justified" -- FDR on Government's Role in the Economy -- Testimony of Charles Mitchell -- Resolution of North Dakota Legislature Regarding the Banking Crisis -- FDR-Fireside Chat on the Banking Crisis -- Depression and Desperation -- "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" -- "Women on the Breadlines" -- Eleanor Roosevelt: "What Ten Million Women Want" -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on "The Forgotten Man" -- Franklin Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address -- The Repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans -- The Big Strike -- United We Eat-the Phenomenon of Unemployed Leagues -- Letter Regarding the Needs of Puerto Ricans in New York -- Letter from a Dust Bowl Survivor -- "An 'Army' Seizes the Capitol" -- New Deal Solutions -- President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat Outlining the New Deal -- Order Creating the Federal Subsistence Homesteads Program -- Letter-Report Concerning the Tennessee Valley -- FDR's Address to the Bankers' Convention at Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. -- Address of Joseph P. Kennedy before the Boston Chamber of Commerce 1934 -- FDR on Social Security -- Frances Perkins on "Social Insurance" -- Executive Order Establishing the Rural Electrification Administration -- Indians at Work -- A New Deal for American Indians -- A Negro in the CCC -- Letter Regarding Assistance to the Poor -- FDR-Address to Farmers -- FDR on Drought Conditions -- Memories of the Flint Sit-Down Strike -- "I'd Rather Not Be on Relief" -- Dear Mrs. Roosevelt -- Volume 2 -- Voices of Dissent -- Upton Sinclair on Ending Poverty in California.2 aTwo Radio "Sermons" -- "Share Our Wealth" Address -- "A Black Inventory of the New Deal" -- Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States -- Politics and Renewal -- Alf Landon's Acceptance Speech as the Republican Nominee for President -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Address at Camden, New Jersey -- FDR's Second Inaugural Address -- President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on the Current Recession -- Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 -- Fair Labor Standards Act -- "My Hopes for the CCC" -- Social and Cultural Developments -- National Archives Act -- "Measuring Public Opinion" -- Honoring Jesse Owens -- From the Federal Writers' Project: Cape Cod Pilot -- Letter from Louise E. Jefferson to Secretary Harold Ickes regarding Marian Anderson's Concert -- World of Tomorrow: 1939 World's Fair Essay by E.B. White -- Changing Ground -- Telegram from Thirty-Six American Writers to President Roosevelt concerning Nazi Germany -- Albert Einstein's Letter to President Roosevelt regarding Developments in Nuclear Science -- The Century of the Common Man -- Interview with a Republican: His Feelings about Government, the Economy, and the World Situation -- The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund-Founding Articles of Agreement -- Appendixes -- Chronological List -- Web Resources -- Bibliography -- Index.

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