When the New Deal Came to Town
eBook - ePub

When the New Deal Came to Town

A Snapshot of a Place and Time with Lessons for Today

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

When the New Deal Came to Town

A Snapshot of a Place and Time with Lessons for Today

About this book

It’s A Wonderful Life meets New Deal or Raw Deal? in this “excellent map for finding a way forward for either party” (Wall Street Journal)—a personal and social history of the New Deal from a conservative point of view, detailing the effects on the economy, culture, and the people of small American town.

When the New Deal Came to Town is a snapshot of a time and place: Whiteland, Indiana during the Great Depression, one of the most fraught eras in American history.

Imagine yourself transported back in time to April of 1933 and deposited in a small American town, when a young boy named Wall Street Journal columnist George Melloan moved with his family to this quiet hamlet during the middle of the worst economic period in American history. Part social history, part personal observations, When the New Deal Came to Town provides a keen eyewitness account of how the Depression affected everyday lives and applies those experiences to the larger arena of American politics.

Written with Melloan’s signature “clarity and polemical skill” (The Washington Times), this is a fascinating narrative history that provides new insight into the Great Depression for a new generation.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Foreword
  4. 1: Welcome to the Village
  5. 2: The Family Odyssey
  6. 3: What Crash?
  7. 4: The Farm Lobby
  8. 5: Economic Stupidity
  9. 6: Money Fumbles
  10. 7: Bashing the Banks
  11. 8: Farewell to Sharecropping
  12. 9: Bill Hits the Road
  13. 10: Electric Lights
  14. 11: Balm to the Spirit
  15. 12: Ain’t We Got Fun
  16. 13: Little Big Man
  17. 14: Whiteland’s Truckers
  18. 15: But Give the Railroads Their Due
  19. 16: A Nation of Shopkeepers
  20. 17: Making Food Last
  21. 18: The Hucksters
  22. 19: FDR Locks Up Savings
  23. 20: Farming Fiats
  24. 21: The Blue Eagle
  25. 22: Warnings from Europe
  26. 23: A Store on the ā€œCar Lineā€
  27. 24: The Second Crash
  28. 25: Other War Stories
  29. 26: War’s Aftermath
  30. 27: The Greatest Generation?
  31. 28: The Progressives
  32. 29: Whiteland Today
  33. Author’s Note: It Takes a Village . . .
  34. Acknowledgments
  35. About the Author
  36. Index
  37. Copyright