Contributor
Congdon, Don.
Imprint:New York : Simon and Schuster, 1962.
Description625 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:I remember the thirties / John Steinbeck - From riches to rags / Dixon Wecter - Sunday Drivers: editor's commentary - How to solve the traffic situation / Corey Ford - Where would it stop?: editor's commentary - New England's tragic towns / Louis Adamic - The miner's ordeal: editor's commentary - Catastrophe in coal / Irving Berstein - Signs of change: editor's commentary - Baseball in the early thirties: editor's commentary - Pepper Martin--the happiest hooligan / W. C. Heinz - The Gashouse Gang, the Deans, and other heroes / Robert Smith - Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias: editor's commentary - The Texas babe / Paul Gallico - Queen of the skies: editor's commentary - The Akron and three who came back / John Toland - Some pretty expensive systems: editor's commentary - Hitchhiker / Eric Sevareid - Down and out at Anacostia: editor's commentary - Macarthur, Eisenhower and Patton versus the vets: editor's commentary - The flight of the bonus army / Malcolm Cowley - Election year--1932: editor's commentary - The inaugural / Arthur M. Schleslinger, Jr. - The great bank holiday / William Manchester - The hundred days: editor's commentary - The rise of federal relief / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - Too much, too soon: editor's commentary - How to relieve everybody / John Riddell.
Note:More on the rise of federal relief / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - The New Deal--junior division: editor's commentary - Weary Willie / Nellie G. Toler, James R. Aswell - On a train to Memphis: editor's commentary - Scottsboro Boys (abstracted from Dr. Allan K. Chalmers' They Shall Be Free) - "New York, New York, what a hell of a town": editor's commentary - Life with Fiorello / Ernest Cuneo - The noble experiment: editor's commentary - Repeal / Frederick Lewis Allen - The worst crime of all: editor's commentary - The Lindbergh case / Frederick Lewis Allen - The judging of Hauptmann / Stanley Walker - They called it bankbusting: editor's commentary - Dillinger / Alan Hynd - Those were the days: editor's commentary - The great nickel panic / Creighton Peet - The syndicate: editor's commentary - The almost assassination of Thomas E. Dewey / Burton B. Turkus, Sid Feder - The Morro Castle fire / William McFee - Rescue at sea / Warren R. Moulton - Morro Castle aftermath / Stanley Walker - The magnificent public works: editor's commentary - Boulder dam / Bruce Bliven - The people, yes: editor's commentary - In search of America / Nathan Asch - Security at any cost: editor's commentary - Huey Long: American dictator / Hodding Carter - Amateurs--there ain't none: editor's commentary - Pity the poor giant / Paul Gallico - The brown bomber: editor's commentary - Joe Louis never smiles / Jonathan Mitchell - The new leisure: editor's commentary - The joint is jumping: editor's commentary.
Note:The swing era / Marshall Stearns - Listening to B. G.: editor's commentary - The spirit of jazz / Otis Ferguson - Let's dance: editor's commentary - Breakfast dance, in Harlem / Otis Ferguson - That lush life in celluloid: editor's commentary - The movies / Arthur Knight - Disaster in the farm lands: editor's commentary - When the farms blew away / Frederick Lewis Allen - New world a-comin': editor's commentary - TVA / Dixon Wecter - Fashions--high and low: editor's commentary - Fashion and design / Cecil Beaton - Going to college: editor's commentary - Youth in college / Fortune Magazine staff - A president who cared: editor's commentary - F.D.R. as president / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - Election year--1936: editor's commentary - Campaign / Marquis Childs - The press and the campaign: editor's commentary - The choice tomorrow / H. L. Mencken - The New Deal and the Supreme Court: editor's commentary - Court Packing: the miscalculated risk / James MacGregor Burns - The C.I.O. takes the offensive: editor's commentary - Working in the Detroit auto plants / Herbert Harris - Strike at the Flint plant / Bruce Blevin - Sit-down at General Motors / Herbert Harris - Bookselling and best sellers: editor's commentary - Hard times and the author / Edward Weeks - Major novelists: editor's commentary.
Note:The writer's project: editor's commentary - The guides / Robert Cantwell - Theater--the fabulous invalid: editor's commentary - Theater groups / Harold Clurman - The plays of the thirties / Ward Morehouse - The musicals / Guy Bolton - New faces / Daniel Blum - Guns and idealists: editor's commentary - Fighting in Spain / Alvah C. Bessie - A certain kind of idealist: editor's commentary. - Report on an American communist / Morris Ernst, David Loth - A turn for the worse: editor's commentary - Recession / Frederick Lewis Allen - The wrathful elements: editor's commentary - New England hurricane / John Q. Stewart - Old-time radio: editor's commentary - Sound and fury / Francis Chase, Jr. - The men from Mars / John Houseman - No risks, no commitments: editor's commentary - The reluctant world power / Dexter Perkins - The decline of Tin Pan Alley: editor's commentary - Songs of the thirties: editor's commentary - The marvels of advertising: editor's commentary - The consumer and science / Dixon Wecter - "May be you can explain it to me": editor's commentary - Marian Anderson and the D.A.R. / Walter White - The nation's heartbeat was never more loud and clear: editor's commentary.
