David M. (Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Stanford University) Kenne
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity. As David Kennedy vividly demonstrates, the economic crisis of the 1930s was far more than a simple reaction to the alleged excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before 1929, America's unbridled industrial revolution had gyrated through repeated boom and bust cycles, wastefully...
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the story of h...
