Author:
McElvaine, Robert S., 1947-
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.
Description192 p. : ill., 1 map ; 26 cm.
Note:What is a document -- How to read a document -- New Era and its undertaker: Twenties, the crash, and Herbert Hoover -- Keep the consumer dissatisfied -- Herbert Hoover's optimism -- Collapse -- "When a horse balks " -- Stormy weather: Depression life -- Hooverville -- City breadlines -- Rural hardship -- "War against the emergency:" New Deal: Roosevelt's first inaugural address -- First fireside chat --"Social economics of the New Deal" -- Open letter to President Roosevelt -- Social Security Act -- W.P.A. -- "And I welcome their hatred:" Business and the New Deal : American Liberty League -- Defending the New Deal -- Schechter Poultry Corp V U.S. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigns against big business -- Which side are you on?: Labor organizing in the thirties: National Labor Relations Act -- Call for industrial unionism -- Finding common ground -- "Dis what de union done" -- Production for use, not profit: Left: Whither the American writer? -- "I have seen black hands" -- "End of poverty in civilization" -- "Ballad of Roosevelt" -- Quick fix: Panaceas: "Cure for depressions" -- Lecture on social justice -- Share our wealth --" Woman can change better'n a man:" Women, men and children in the depression: Birth rates -- Maternalism -- "Boy and girl tramps of America" -- "Will women lose their jobs? -- Negro was born In depression: Race and ethnicity in the thirties: New pattern of life for the Indian -- Getting by -- Mexican-American dream -- Mary Tsukamoto's story -- Down on the farm: Rural depression: Rebellion in the Corn Belt -- "Dust bowl diary" -- Woody Guthrie on the dust bowl -- Art for the millions: Culture in the thirties: Superman: New Deal hero -- Joe Louis uncovers dynamite -- Federal patronage of the arts -- Mother and father of the nation?: Attitudes toward the Roosevelts: Pre-election niew -- Letter from Wisconsin -- Memorandum on "court packing" -- "My day" -- Praise for Eleanor Roosevelt -- "Social values more noble than mere monetary profit": Great Depression and American Values: "Forgotten man" radio address -- Memories of a southern white girl -- changed social life of a migrant camp -- "Middletown in transition" -- "Spirit of charity" -- "Over the rainbow" -- Chronology.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-184) and index.
