America 1933 : the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the shaping of the New Deal
Summary
The first account of the remarkable 18-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the unprecedented ravages; an indelible portrait of an unprecedented crisis. Full description
- Prologue: muffled figures, bitter winds
- View to a New Deal
- Part of the story
- Coal country
- Strandees
- The ghosts of Wall Street
- America's Siberia
- "The richest village in the world"
- The stricken South
- Empire of misery
- Epilogue: prospects.