4. Snow in Harvest: The Onset of the Great Depression

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Driving Ambition: The Continuing Revolutions in Transportation 5
7. 2. The 1920s: An American Dream That Became a Nightmare 40
8. 3. The Incomplete Politics of the Republican Ascendancy 84
9. 4. Snow in Harvest: The Onset of the Great Depression 109
10. 5. Happy Days Are Here Again: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Early New Deal 145
11. 6. Stormy Weather: The Later New Deal 179
12. 7. A House Divided: Workers, Labor, and Ethnic Groups 219
13. 8. What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue? Black America 257
14. 9. Sounds Impossible: The Golden Age of Radio 304
15. 10. Seeing Is Deceiving: Hollywood and the Movies 339
16. 11. Requiem, but No Peace: The Lost Generation and the Arts 383
17. 12. Artistic License 455
18. 13. New Horizons, Closed Frontiers: America in World Affairs After 1920 494
19. 14. "Who Is This Hitler, and What Does He Want?" Isolation and Intervention 536
20. Sources 595
21. Bibliography 597
22. Index 617