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Since Yesterday
The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939
- 368 pages
- English
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About this book
A "wonderfully written account of America in the '30s," the follow-up to
Only Yesterday examines Black Tuesday through the end of the Depression (
The
New York Times).
Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Opening on September 3, 1929, in the days before the stock market crash, this information-packed volume takes us through one of America's darkest times all the way to the light at the end of the tunnel.
Following Black Tuesday, America plunged into the Great Depression. Panic and fear gripped the nation. Banks were closing everywhere. In some cities, 84 percent of the population was unemployed and starving. When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, public confidence in the nation slowly began to grow, and by 1936, the industrial average, which had plummeted in 1929 from 125 to fifty-eight, had risen again to almost one hundred. But America still had a long road ahead. Popular historian Frederick Lewis Allen brings to life these ten critical years. With wit and empathy, he draws a devastating economic picture of small businesses swallowed up by large corporations—a ruthless bottom line not so different from what we see today. Allen also chronicles the decade's lighter side: the fashions, morals, sports, and candid cameras that were revolutionizing Americans' lives.
From the Lindbergh kidnapping to the New Deal, from the devastating dust storms that raged through our farmlands to the rise of Benny Goodman, the public adoration of Shirley Temple, and our mass escape to the movies, this book is a hopeful and powerful reminder of why history matters.
Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Opening on September 3, 1929, in the days before the stock market crash, this information-packed volume takes us through one of America's darkest times all the way to the light at the end of the tunnel.
Following Black Tuesday, America plunged into the Great Depression. Panic and fear gripped the nation. Banks were closing everywhere. In some cities, 84 percent of the population was unemployed and starving. When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, public confidence in the nation slowly began to grow, and by 1936, the industrial average, which had plummeted in 1929 from 125 to fifty-eight, had risen again to almost one hundred. But America still had a long road ahead. Popular historian Frederick Lewis Allen brings to life these ten critical years. With wit and empathy, he draws a devastating economic picture of small businesses swallowed up by large corporations—a ruthless bottom line not so different from what we see today. Allen also chronicles the decade's lighter side: the fashions, morals, sports, and candid cameras that were revolutionizing Americans' lives.
From the Lindbergh kidnapping to the New Deal, from the devastating dust storms that raged through our farmlands to the rise of Benny Goodman, the public adoration of Shirley Temple, and our mass escape to the movies, this book is a hopeful and powerful reminder of why history matters.
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INDEX
AAA (see Agricultural Adjustment Administration)
ABC of Technocracy, The, Leighton, 92
“Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” 259
Acheson, Dean G., 165
Adams, Evangeline, 75
After Seven Years, Moley, 110
Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 95, 116, 117, 122, 166, 187, 203, 223
Air-conditioning, 227
Albania, invasion of, 332
All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque, 6
Allen, Fred, 276
Allen, Gracie, 276
Allen, Robert S., 273
Alsop, Joseph, 295, 310
American Federation of Labor, 9, 57, 68, 163, 284, 285, 315
American Institute of Public Opinion, 245
American Mercury, 159
American Student Union, 325
American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 336
“American Way, The,” 305
Amos ’n’ Andy, 19, 34, 35, 276
Anderson, Marian, 342
Anderson, Maxwell, 259
Angell, James Rowland, 31
Anthony Adverse, Allen, 19, 124, 183, 216, 255
Anti-Semitism, 329, 330
Armstrong, Louis, 266
Arnold, Thurman, 31
Arts, the
movies, 277-280
painting, 262
photography, 263-265
radio, 268-270, 275-276
swing music, 265-268
Astaire, Fred, 215
Austria, 48, 321
Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, 261
Automobiles, 14, 213, 226
free-wheeling, 36
Aviation, 8, 9, 29, 35, 227-228, 302, 343
Hindenburg disaster, 302
Babe Ruth, 10, 46
Babson, Roger, 229
Baer, Max, 124, 172
Balbo, General, 123
Baldwin, Stanley, 248
Ballantine, Arthur, 110, 112
Ballyhoo, 57
“Bank night,” 153
Bank of America, 13
Bank of the United States, 46
Bank panic
in 1931, 48-52
in 1933, 97-103
national bank holiday, 106
“Barre...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- I. Prelude: September 3, 1929
- II. Exit Prosperity
- III. Down, Down, Down
- IV. A Change of Government
- V. New Deal Honeymoon
- VI. A Change of Climate
- VII. Reform—and Recovery?
- VIII. When the Farms Blew Away
- IX. The Voice with the Smile Wins
- X. With Pen and Camera Through Darkest America
- XI. Friction and Recession
- XII. The Shadow of War
- Appendix
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright Page