1929: The Year of the Great Crash
Captures the drama of the economic climate of 1929, against a backdrop of the world economic and social picture, from the collectivization of Russian peasants to American millworkers striking for the right to unionize
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The chronicle of a year, based primarily on first-person reports gleaned from newspapers, periodicals, and books, and covering such areas of social life as economics, music, sports, literature, and politics. The front-page events are all there, along with the headliners: the Rockefellers and Duponts, the Marx Brothers, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Al Smith, Al Capone, Stalin, and Gandhi. Strictly a popular account. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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