Contributor
Gerdes, Louise I., 1953-
Imprint:San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, c2000.
Description368 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:1929: a year of transition / Joe Alex Morris - Between two worlds: America during the Hoover years / Geoffrey Perrett - The politics of change: Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt / Wayne S. Cole - The changing mood of America: the repeal of Prohibition / Thomas R. Pegram - Causes of the Great Depression / Adrian A. Paradis - Depression farming: drought, dust, and displacement / T.H. Watkins - The migrant youth of Depression America / Thomas Minehan - A New Deal for the American people / Alan Brinkley - The emergence of Federal Public Assistance / John F. Bauman, Thomas H. Coode - Life in the Civilian Conservation Corps / Donald Dale Jackson - The Works Progress Administration: criticism and praise / Robert S. McElvaine - Radio in the 1930s: an overview / Tom Lewis - Listening to the 1930s: Americans remember the radio / Ray Barfield - Creating consumers: the radio soap opera / Marilyn Lavin - The press-radio war / Gwenyth Jackaway - Martians invade the airwaves in 1938 / Edward Oxford - Talk radio in the 1930s / Stephen Goode - The crime of the century: the Lindbergh baby kidnapping / James D. Horan - The trials of the Scottsboro boys / Douglas O. Linder - Gangsters and G-men: fighting crime in the thirties / Frederick Lewis Allen - Labor unrest during the Depression / Howard Zinn - The Hollywood studio system adapts to sound / Frank E. Beaver - Fighting crime in the comics / Herb Galewitz - Gangsters, bums, and heroes in baseball / Robert T. Smith - Depression jazz: from swing to hot jazz revival / Burton W. Peretti - The legacy of the New Deal / Roger Biles - "The world of tomorrow": the 1939 New York World's Fair / Richard M. Ketchum - Changing foreign policy: from isolation to intervention / Gerald D. Nash.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 356-359) and index.
