TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stillman,Edmund O.
TI  - The Great Depression /Edmund O. Stillman
SN  - 9781612309033
AV  - E806 .G743 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - New Word City
KW  - Depressions
KW  - 1929
KW  - United States
KW  - New Deal, 1933-1939
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - The event that defined the 1930s in the United States came before it started. On October 29, "Black Tuesday," stock-market investors lost more than 30 billion in the Great Crash. The ten-year Great Depression that followed was not the product of a single day or week. Nonetheless, it came as a shock to the American people and to the man they looked to for relief: President Herbert Hoover. Soon, as banks failed, mortgages were foreclosed, and unemployment soared, bread lines formed throughout the country in grim testimony to the state of the economy. The policies of Hoover and then Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal started a long road to relief, recovery, and reform. Here, from the respected historian Edmund O. Stillman, are the stories of The Great Depression, the 1930s, and an American people defined by their resilience in the face of debilitating despair
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