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Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression

text Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression

Dickstein, Morris.

Summary

Shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photograhy, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.

Contents
Introduction: Depression culture -- The tenement and the world: immigrant lives -- The starvation army -- The country and the city -- Hard times for poets -- Black girls and native sons -- Beyond the American dream -- What price Hollywood? -- The ... Read more
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Description
xxiii, 598 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher
W. W. Norton 2009
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Woodmere (Main Branch) 973.91 DIC in Adult Non-fiction Available

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