Table of Contents

Series Foreword by Randall M. Miller
Preface
The Great Depression and the New Deal Explained
The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1940: An Overview
A Decade of Depression, 1929-1941: Theories of Cause and Cure
America's Struggle Against the Depression, 1920-1940: From Hoover to Roosevelt and the New Deal
The Great Depression and American Politics
Society and Culture in the Depression Decade
The New Deal: An Evaluation
Biographies: The Personalities Behind the Great Depression and the New Deal
Primary Documents of the Great Depression and the New Deal
Annotated Bibliography
Glossary of Selected Terms
Index

About the Author

ROBERT F. HIMMELBERG is Professor of History at Fordham University. He served as Dean of Fordham's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1993 to 2000. He is the author of Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History (1996), Business and Government in America Since 1870 (1994), The Origins of the National Recovery Administration: Business, Government, and the Trade Association Issue, 1921-1933 (1976, rev. ed. 1993), coauthor of Herbert Hoover and the Crisis of American Capitalism (1974), and editor of The Great Depression and American Capitalism (1968). A specialist in the economic and political history of the Great Depression and the New Deal, he has written numerous papers on the subject.

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