A Troubled Birth

A Troubled Birth
Author: Susan Herbst
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2021-11-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 022681310X

Introduction: Birth of a Public -- President in the Maelstrom: FDR as Public Opinion Theorist -- Twisted Populism: Pollsters and Delusions of Citizenship -- A Consuming Public: The Strange and Magnificent New York World's Fair -- Radio Embraces Race and Immigration, Awkwardly -- Interlude: A Depression Needn't Be So Depressing -- Public Opinion and Its Problems: Some Ways Forward.

The Great Depression

The Great Depression
Author: T. H. Watkins
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2009-10-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780316080439

This companion volume to the public television series delves into the events and impact of the Great Depression. The text is illustrated throughout with photos, documents, and posters, many previously unpublished.

The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered

The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered
Author: Robert Mason
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: Liberalism
ISBN: 9780813064444

Here, leading scholars-including Hodgson himself-confront the longstanding theory that a liberal consensus shaped the United States after World War II. The essays draw on fresh research to examine how the consensus related to key policy areas, how it was viewed by different factions and groups, what its limitations were, and why it fell apart in the late 1960s.

The American 1930s

The American 1930s
Author: Peter Conn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-02-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521516404

A wholly new perspective on the literature and art of the 1930s by a leading scholar of the period.

Modernity and the Great Depression

Modernity and the Great Depression
Author: Kenneth J. Bindas
Publisher: Culture America (Hardcover)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780700624003

Modernity and the Great Depression explores how the worst economic, social, and political crisis in the last century created the space for a national conversation about the ideals of modernity--order, planning, and reason.

Holding Their Own

Holding Their Own
Author: Susan Ware
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1982
Genre: History
ISBN:

"Holding Their Own provides a lively overview of the often unrecognized contributions and experiences of American women during the Depression. Harvard historian Susan Ware analyzes the survival of feminism, the impact of popular culture, and the changing role of women at home and at work, and considers the achievements of such extraordinary women as Amelia Earhart, Lillian Hellman, Clare Boothe and Emma Goldman in the context of their time."--Book cover.

Since Yesterday

Since Yesterday
Author: Frederick Lewis Allen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2010-01-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781409207238

Voices of Protest

Voices of Protest
Author: Alan Brinkley
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2011-08-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307803228

The study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their modest origins and their parallel rise together in the early years of the Great Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era. *Winner of the American Book Award for History*

The Power of Political Art

The Power of Political Art
Author: Robert Shulman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807848531

During the 1930s, radical young writers, artists, and critics associated with the Communist Party animated a cultural dialogue that was one of the most stimulating in American history. With the dawning of the Cold War, however, much of their work fell out