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On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear, Kennedy tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of that unprecedented calamity.

Kennedy vividly demonstrates that the economic crisis of the 1930s was more than a reaction to the excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before the Crash, America's unbridled industrial revolution had gyrated through repeated boom and bust cycles, consuming capital and inflicting misery on city and countryside alike. Nor was the alleged prosperity of the 1920s as uniformly shared as legend portrays. Countless Americans eked out threadbare lives on the margins of national life.

Roosevelt's New Deal wrenched opportunity from the trauma of the 1930s and created a lasting legacy of economic and social reform, but it was afflicted with shortcomings and contradictions as well. With an even hand Kennedy details the New Deal's problems and defeats, as well as its achievements. He also sheds fresh light on its incandescent but enigmatic author, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Marshalling unforgettable narratives that feature prominent leaders as well as lesser-known citizens, The American People in the Great Depression tells the story of a resilient nation finding courage in an unrelenting storm.

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Like an earthquake, the stock market crash of October 1929 cracked startlingly across the United States, the herald of a crisis that was to shake the American way of life to its foundations.

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  • Title The American People in the Great Depression
  • Author David M. Kennedy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 504
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
  • Publication date 2003-11-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195168921 / 0195168925
  • Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.41 x 5.94 x 1.21 in (23.90 x 15.09 x 3.07 cm)
  • Reading level 1460
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Depressions - 1929 - United States, New Deal, 1933-1939
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003058491
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.91

About the author

David M. Kennedy is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. He is also the author of Over Here: The First World War and American Society, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, which won the Bancroft Prize. He lives in Stanford, California.
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