The Great Depression: A Diary
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Great Depression: A Diary
By (Author) James Ledbetter
By (author) Benjamin Roth
By (author) Daniel Roth
Edited by Benjamin Roth
Edited by Daniel Roth
Edited by James Ledbetter
PublicAffairs,U.S.
PublicAffairs,U.S.
31st August 2010
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
History of the Americas
973.91092
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 150mm, Height 228mm, Spine 20mm
300g
Description
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depressionone lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roths depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to readers today.
Author Bio
James Ledbetter is the editor of The Big Money," Slate.com's web site on business and economics. Daniel B. Roth, son of Benjamin Roth, is the chairman of the law firm of Roth, Blair, Roberts, Strasfeld & Lodge in Youngstown, Ohio.
