The Great Depression (1920–1940)

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash: 1929 . Boston: Mariner Books, 1997.

Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 19291945 . New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Kindleberger, Charles P. The World in Depression, 19291939 . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. New York: Perennial, 1963.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Age of Roosevelt, Volume I: The Crisis of the Old Order, 19191933 . Boston: Mariner Books, 2003 .

———. The Age of Roosevelt, Volume II: The Coming of the New Deal, 19331935 . Boston: Mariner Books, 2003.

———. The Age of Roosevelt, Volume III: The Politics of Upheaval, 19351936 . Boston: Mariner Books, 2003.

Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

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