Brother,
can you
spare a
dime ? America from the Wall Street Crash to Pearl Harbor An Illustrated Documentary Softcover book by Susan Winslow Copyright © 1976 by Susan Winslow New Publisher's Note Copyright © 1979 by Paddington Press " A brilliantly evocative and nostalgic record
of one of the most crucial and contradictory
periods of American history, told through the
photographs, newspapers, magazines, speeches,
songs and other writings of the period. " " Featuring a star-studded cast of
more than 123 million Americans, including: 15 million unemployed * Herbert Hoover *
Henry Ford * Will Rogers * John D. Rockefeller, Sr. *
The Bonus Marchers * Al Capone * John Dillinger *
J. Edgar Hoover * Hundreds of thousands of Dust Bowl and
flood victims * Huey Long * Tens of thousands of
striking United Automobile Workers * Cecil B. DeMille *
Shirley Temple * Orson Welles * Clark Gable *
Greta Garbo * Charles Lindbergh * and Dr. New Deal himself,
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT " " " The next time your child asks you to tell him about what is
to him prehistoric-the Depression-just hand him this book."
-Los Angeles Herald Examiner " Contents include: " Introduction The Scene of the Crash 1929-32
Wall Street goes under
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Unemployment
Henry Ford
Will Rogers
William Saroyan When Mr. Hoover says Okay 1932
Bonus Army march on Washington
Walter F. Waters, B.E.F. Commander
John Dos Passos
Federal troops called out
General Douglas MacArthur Dr. New Deal 1932-33
1932 Presidential campaign
Assassination attempt on Roosevelt
Bank holiday
Inauguration
Alphabet legislation
Will Rogers
Prohibition repeal
NRA and the Blue Eagle Don't Shoot, G-Men, Don't Shoot ! 1932-35
Raymond Chandler
Al Capone
Lindbergh kidnapping
Ma Barker
Pretty Boy Floyd
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI
John Dillinger The Dying Land 1933-37
Drought
Dustbowl
Woody Guthrie
Okies and migration west
John Steinbeck
Floods Worlds in Collision 1935-37
Erskine Caldwell
Lynchings
Harlem race riot
Huey Long
1936 Presidential campaign
Strikes
John L. Lewis and the CIO Heaven on Stage Eight 1932-41
Busby Berkeley
Garbo
Sam Goldwyn
Shirley Temple
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Howard Hughes
"Gone With the Wind"
Charlie Chaplin
"Citizen Kane" and the wrath of the Hearst empire Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? 1938-41
German-American Bund
Father Charles Coughlin
Isolationists
Charles Lindbergh
Roosevelt, Willkie and the 1940 campaign
Joseph P. Kennedy
Lend-Lease
America First Committee
Pearl Harbor Acknowledgments
Index " This book is in good to very good condition with some edgewear to the cover.
No torn or ripped pages.
The inside edges of the cover are slightly yellowed due to aging.
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