Fight and Flight: The 1930s

Examines the causes of the Dust Bowl, discusses its effects, and provides primary source quotes and photographs.

This book describes the optimism of the 1920s, the upward spiral of the stock market, the Wall Street Crash, the Great Depression, and a worldwide economic crisis.

Features primary source material from speeches, letters, and diaries, as well as first-hand experiences of those who were a part of the Great Depression, and describes the stock market crash of 1929, unemployment, bread line, World War Two, and more.

Presents a collection of illustrated archival photographs describing children of the Great Depression, and draws upon memoirs, diaries, letters, and other first-hand accounts that look at the lives of young Americans during the 1930s.

Again, lots of books on FDR with this call number. This is a biography of the thirty-second president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and young adulthood.