Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941W. W. Norton & Company, 1994 M04 17 - 544 páginas "Impressively detailed. . . . An authoritative and epic overview."—Publishers Weekly In the convulsive years between 1920 and 941, Americans were first dazzled by unprecedented economic prosperity and then beset by the worst depression in their history. It was the era of Model T's, rising incomes, scientific management, electricity, talking movies, and advertising techniques that sold a seemingly endless stream of goods. But is was also a time of grave social conflict and human suffering.The Crash forced Hoover, and then Roosevelt and the nation, to reexamine old solutions and address pressing questions of recovery and reform, economic growth and social justice. The world beyond America changed also in these years, making the country rethink its relation to events in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The illusion of superiority slowly died in the 1930s, sustaining a fatal blow in December 1941 at Pearl Harbor. |
Contenido
WINNERS AND LOSERS | |
WETS DRYS AND IMMIGRANTS | |
ONE NATION DIVISIBLE | |
THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1932 | |
LAUNCHING THE NEW DEAL | |
CRITICS LEFT CRITICS RIGHT | |
HIGH TIDE | |
DEADLOCK | |
NEW DEALS OLD DEALS | |
BEST OF TIMES WORST OF TIMES | |
ORDEAL OF THE INTELLECTUALS | |
FORTUNES OF FEMINISM | |
CULT OF PERSONALITIES | |
LOST GENERATION | |
CHANGING THE GUARD | |
PART | |
THE TRIALS OF HERBERT HOOVER | |
OVER THERE AGAIN | |
THE ROAD TO | |
SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING AND NOTES ON SOURCES | |
CREDITS | |
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Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 Michael E. Parrish Vista previa limitada - 1994 |
Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 Michael E. Parrish Sin vista previa disponible - 1992 |
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