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Hard times : an oral history of the great depression / Studs Terkel.

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Publisher's description: Recreates the character and atmosphere of this dramatic era in a collage of recollections by both well-known and obscure Americans.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Depressions > 1929 > United States > Personal narratives.
Oral history.
United States > History > 1933-1945 > Sources.
United States > History > 1919-1933 > Sources.
United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945 > Sources.
United States > Biography.
Economische crises.
Mondelinge geschiedenis (wetenschap)
Table of Contents:
  • BOOK ONE: The march
  • The song
  • Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band
  • Hard travelin'
  • The big money
  • Man and boy
  • God bless' the child
  • Bonnie laboring boy
  • Three strikes
  • BOOK TWO: Old families
  • Member of the chorus
  • High life
  • At the clinic
  • Sixteen ton
  • The farmer is the man
  • Editor and publisher
  • BOOK THREE: Concerning the new deal
  • An unreconstructed populist
  • Peroration
  • Scarlet banners and novenas
  • The doctor, Huey and Mr. Smith
  • The circuit rider
  • The gentleman from Kansas
  • A view of the woods
  • Campus life
  • BOOK FOUR: Merely passing through
  • Three o'clock in the morning
  • A cable
  • BOOK FIVE: The fine and lively arts
  • Public servant : the city
  • Evictions, arrests and other running sores
  • Honor and humiliation
  • Strive and succeed
  • Epilogue.

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