Watkins, The Hungry Years - A Narrative History Of The Great Depression In America

Abstract

The literature on the Great Depression is among the richest in American historiography, and rightly so. The 1930s was a decade that reshaped America and the lives of individual Americans in dramatic ways. Much of this literature focuses on the ideological origins of New Deal policy and the policymakers themselves, while other books examine the ways these policies affected citizens in a variety of contexts.