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Book · 1970 · Nonfiction

Hard Times

An Oral History of the Great Depression
Studs Terkel
New Press · 462 pages
★ 5.7 editorial score

Evicted tenants, migrant pickers, stockbrokers, and a man who ran for president tell Terkel what the Depression did to them. What comes through hardest is how many took the collapse as personal failure.

Genre
SociologySocial history
Medium
Oral history
Subject
Great DepressionWorking classPovertyUnemployment
Setting
United States
Time
1970Depicts Great DepressionDepicts 1930s

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