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David M. Kennedy

The American People in the Great Depression

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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 inflictingmisery on city and countryside alike. Nor was the alleged prosperity of the 1920s as uniformly… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-516892-1
  • EAN: 9780195168921
  • Produktnummer: 22670150
  • Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
  • Seitenangabe: 464 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.4 cm x D3.4 cm 708 g
  • Gewicht: 708

Über den Autor


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 inStanford, California.

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