C Form: Bud, Not Buddy: Home

Through memoirs, diaries, letters, and other firsthand accounts, illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression, including middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, and others.

From the stock market crash through the drought and dust storms that gripped the Great Plains, Cooper chronicles the struggle for survival by those who lost everything.

Nearly one-third of America's labor force was out of work in 1932. Apple selling became a symbol of grim times, when an unusually good apple crop prompted growers to sell the fruit to the unemployed, who, in turn, could sell them for profit on the streets. The game Monopoly was invented during the Depression, and in that age of scaled-down leisure pursuits, people could vicariously enjoy high finance. Sherrow explores the economic, political, and social face of American society from the late twenties to the beginning of World War II, with a timely chapter on the legacy of New Deal programs that touches on current welfare reform law.

Here is the story of the land, of the people who transformed it, and the terrible price they paid.

Describes how the uncommon events of the 1920s and 1930s changed the lives of the common people of America.

Down and Out is a moving collections of letters by the forgotten men, women and children who suffered through one of the greatest periods of hardships in America's history.

Featuring the memories from politicians, businessmen and writers, Hard Times is a goldmine of information.