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Hitting Home: The Great Depression in Town and Country
Bernard . Ed(S): Sternsher
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Description for Hitting Home: The Great Depression in Town and Country
paperback. Twelve historical articles describe the problems of the Great Depression in town and country, on a scale we can all comprehend. "A real breakthrough in our understanding of the depression." -Alfred B. Rollins, Jr. Editor(s): Sternsher, Bernard. Num Pages: 303 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 376.
We know a great deal about what went on in the White House and at the federal level to combat the gravest economic crisis in the nation’s history; we know much less about what it was like at the grass roots, in cities, towns, and communities throughout the country. Hitting Home is absorbing reading because it describes the problems of the depression on a scale we can all comprehend. Mr. Sternsher has selected twelve historical articles which fill in the local picture in compelling detail—from New York’s Harlem to Orange County, California; from Minneapolis to the Oklahoma Indians. The reader ... Read more
We know a great deal about what went on in the White House and at the federal level to combat the gravest economic crisis in the nation’s history; we know much less about what it was like at the grass roots, in cities, towns, and communities throughout the country. Hitting Home is absorbing reading because it describes the problems of the depression on a scale we can all comprehend. Mr. Sternsher has selected twelve historical articles which fill in the local picture in compelling detail—from New York’s Harlem to Orange County, California; from Minneapolis to the Oklahoma Indians. The reader ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee United States
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780929587134
SKU
V9780929587134
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99-15
About Bernard . Ed(S): Sternsher
Bernard Sternsher is Distinguished University Professor of History at Bowling Green State University; among his many books are the award-winning Rexford Tugwell and the New Deal and Hitting Home: The Great Depression in Town and Country. Judith Sealander is Professor of History at Wright State University and author of As Minority Becomes Majority.
Reviews for Hitting Home: The Great Depression in Town and Country
A definitive account.
Booklist
A seminal work...destined to stand on the shelf alongside other classics of Holocaust history.
Kirkus
Careful and informative.
The New York Review Of Books
Mr. Ioanid recounts in chilling detail the savage persecution of the Jews...an especially timely book.
Tom Gross
The Wall Street Journal
Booklist
A seminal work...destined to stand on the shelf alongside other classics of Holocaust history.
Kirkus
Careful and informative.
The New York Review Of Books
Mr. Ioanid recounts in chilling detail the savage persecution of the Jews...an especially timely book.
Tom Gross
The Wall Street Journal