02737cam a2200373 i 4500 1061596031 TxAuBib 20100106120000.0 030715s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003058491 9780195168921 PAP 21.99 0195168925 PAP 21.99 TxAuBib rda Kennedy, David M. Freedom from fear. Part 1 The American people in the Great Depression [BOOK] / David M. Kennedy. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004. xxii, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Oxford history of the United States ; 9 Includes bibliographical references and index. "On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear, Kennedy tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of that unprecedented calamity. Kennedy vividly demonstrates that the economic crisis of the 1930s was more than a reaction to the excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before the Crash, America's unbridled industrial revolution had gyrated through repeated boom and bust cycles, consuming capital and inflicting misery on city and countryside alike. Nor was the alleged prosperity of the 1920s as uniformly shared as legend portrays. Countless Americans eked out threadbare lives on the margins of national life. Roosevelt's New Deal wrenched opportunity from the trauma of the 1930s and created a lasting legacy of economic and social reform, but it was afflicted with shortcomings and contradictions as well. With an even hand Kennedy details the New Deal's problems and defeats, as well as its achievements. He also sheds fresh light on its incandescent but enigmatic author, Franklin D. Roosevelt.". Originally published as one volume by Oxford University Press in 1999. 20240118. Depressions 1929 United States. New Deal, 1933-1939. World War, 1939-1945 United States. United States History 1919-1933. United States History 1933-1945. Oxford history of the United States ; 9. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0614/2003058491-d.html Publisher description https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/2003058491-b.html Contributor biographical information