Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man By Robert S. McElvaine
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press 2007 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0807858919 | PDF | 11 MB
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press 2007 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0807858919 | PDF | 11 MB
Down and Out in the Great Depression is a moving, revealing collection of letters by the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through one of the greatest periods of hardship in American history. Sifting through some 15,000 letters from government and private sources, Robert McElvaine has culled nearly 200 communications that best show the problems, thoughts, and emotions of ordinary people during this time.
Unlike views of Depression life "from the bottom up" that rely on recollections recorded several decades later, this book captures the daily anguish of people during the thirties. It puts the reader in direct contact with Depression victims, evoking a feeling of what it was like to live through this disaster.