Invisible Scar
The Great Depression, and What It Did to American Life, from Then Until Now
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Word Count
91,000 words, Guess
Page Count
364 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7880125M
- ISBN-139780582280168
- ISBN-100582280168
- OCLC Control Number172902
- Library of Congress Control Number65024266
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1035571
- Goodreads6359446
Classifications
- LCCHC106.3 .B5
- DDC973.916
Description
Hapless Herbert Hoover chose the term "depression" because he felt it did not have the fright potential of such established terms for financial disaster as "panic" or "crisis." This, and 1001 other facts have been rescued from the near oblivion that blankets the '30's in popular histories (or in tribal memory), and the buried gold of essential facts are burnished with personal anecdote and vivid passages from the contemporary record -- speeches and newspaper features. The title is the thesis, and this book contends that this willfully forgotten period has affected national attitudes and individual behavior with changes in politics, social welfare, employment, selling, marriage, women, and styles of dress, decor and decorum--along with failures to change. If your invisible scar twinges on hearing the refrain from "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" you should take the time for this -- it tells you why.
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