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The Great Depression
James Ledbetter
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Description for The Great Depression
Paperback. Editor(s): Ledbetter, James; Roth, Daniel B. Num Pages: 288 pages, B/W photos throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression,one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roth's depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to ... Read more
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression,one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roth's depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781586489014
SKU
9781586489014
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About James Ledbetter
James Ledbetter is the editor of The Big Money," Slate.com's web site on business and economics. Daniel B. Roth, son of Benjamin Roth, is the chairman of the law firm of Roth, Blair, Roberts, Strasfeld & Lodge in Youngstown, Ohio.
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