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Down & out in the Great Depression: Letters from the "Forgotten Man"

by Robert S. Mcelvaine. 254 pgs.

Contributors:

   Robert S. Mcelvaine

Publisher:

   University of North Carolina Press

Place of Publication:

  Chapel Hill, NC  

Publication Year:

  1983

	Contents
	Preface	xi
	Acknowledgments	xv
	Introduction	1
	Part I: The Early Depression	33
	Chapter 1. Reactions to Hoover and Economic Breakdown	35
	Part II: Conditions of Life in the Thirties	49
	Chapter 2. Proud But Frightened: Middle-Class Hardship	51
	Chapter 3. The Grass Roots: Rural Depression	67
	Chapter 4. A Worse Depression: Black Americans in the 1930s	79
	Chapter 5. To Be Old, Sick, and Poor	95
	Chapter 6. The Forgotten Children	113
	Part III: Reactions to the Depression	121
	Chapter 7. Attitudes toward Relief	123
	Chapter 8. The Conservative	143
	Chapter 9. The Desperate	155
	Chapter 10. The Cynical	173
	Chapter 11. The Rebellious	183
	Part IV: The "Forgotten Man" Looks at Roosevelt	201
	Chapter 12. The Unconvinced	203
	Chapter 13. "Our Savior"	215
	Notes	235
	Sources of Letters	243
	Index	247

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