Synopsis
Compiles a history of the Great Depression, including the events that led up to it and the New Deal that followed, with chronologies, personal narratives, and documents.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-01-01 | | Series: | Eyewitness History Series |
| Size | | Length: | 390 pages | | Height: | 11.3 in | | Width: | 9.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 47.2 oz |
Publisher's Note
The Great Depression, a volume in Facts On File's acclaimed Eyewitness History series, provides hundreds of firsthand accounts of this period - from memoirs, speeches, letters and newspapers, which illustrate how historical events appeared to those who lived through them. Among the eyewitness testimonies included are those of Roosevelt, Huey Long, Edna St. Vincent Millay and hundreds more. In addition to the firsthand accounts, each chapter provides an introductory essay and a chronology of events. The book also includes two appendixes - which consist of relevant documents and capsule biographies of more than 200 key figures - a bibliography, an index and numerous photographs.
Industry Reviews
Burg (coauthor, The World Almanac of the American Revolution, Pharos, 1992) competently delivers a narrative summary and chronology of major events in the United States and throughout the world during the Depression. He offers seven chapters, each covering one or more years; brief contemporary quotations from politicians, journalists, authors, and advertisements; and 80 black-and-white photographs. The appendixes contain a selection of primary sources, mainly New Deal statutes and other documents, and capsule biographies. The focus is somewhat different from that of existing reference series such as Britannica's "Annals of America," which is stronger on primary sources, and Time-Life's "This Fabulous Century," which offers better photographs. More recent competition comes from Victor Bondi's American Decades, 1930-1939 (Gale, 1995), which has a topical arrangement, a more attractive layout, and greater scope beyond politics but lacks the quotations. Given these choices, not to mention overlap with other types of reference books, this is an optional selection for school and college libraries. Robert F. Nardini, North Chichester, N.H.
Breitman
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