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

by Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.

Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Personal narratives.

United States -- History -- 1933-1945.

United States -- History -- 1919-1933.

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.

Publisher Info:

New York : Pantheon Books, 1970.

xiii, 462 p. ; 25 cm.

BOOK ONE -- The march -- Sgt. Pepperʾs Lonely Hearts Club Band -- Hard Travelinʾ -- The big money -- Man and boy -- God blessʾ 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 oʾclock in the morning -- A cable -- BOOK FIVE -- The fine and lively arts -- Public servant-the city -- Evictions, arrests and running sores -- Honor and humiliation -- Strive and succeed -- Epilogue.

A re-creation of the America of the thirties, based on the reminiscences of a cross-section of people representing all walks of life, including several notable personalities.

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