The Coming of the Depression. Michael Bernstein, The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929--1939 (1987). Lester V. Chandler, America's Greatest Depression (1970). Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz, The Great Contraction (1965); or Chapter 7 of A Monetary History of the United States (1963). John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash (1954). Susan E. Kennedy, The Banking Crisis of 1933 (1973). Charles Kindelberger, The World in Depression (1973). Broadus Mitchell, Depression Decade (1947). Robert Sobel, The Great Bull Market (1968). Peter Temin, Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? (1976).

The Impact of the Depression. Francisco Balerman, In Defense of La Raza: The Los Angeles Mexican Consulate and the Mexican Community, 1929--1936 (1982). Ann Banks, ed., First-Person America (1980). Irving Bernstein, The Lean Years (1960). Caroline Bird, The Invisible Scar (1966). Glen H. Elder, Jr., Children of the Great Depression (1974). Federal Writers' Project, These Are Our Lives (1939). James N. Gregory, American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California (1989). Abraham Hoffman, Unwanted Mexican-Americans in the Great Depression (1974). Richard Lowitt and Maurine Beasley, eds., One-Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickock Reports the Great Depression (1981). Robert S. McElvaine, ed., Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man (1983). William Mullins, The Depression and the Urban West Coast, 1929--1933 (1991). Janet Poppendieck, Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression (1986). Udo Sautter, Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment before the New Deal (1991). Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order (1957). Walter Stein, California and the Dust Bowl Migration (1973). Bernard Sternsher, Hitting Home: The Great Depression in Town and Country (1970). Catherine McNicol Stock, Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains (1992). Studs Terkel, Hard Times (1970). Tom Terrill and Jerrold Hirsch, Such as Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties (1978). Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979).

Depression-Era Culture and Society. Charles C. Alexander, Nationalism in American Thought, 1930--1945 (1969). Frederick Lewis Allen, Since Yesterday (1940). Jane S. Becker, Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940 (1998). Andrew Bergman, We're in the Money: Depression America and Its Films (1971). Douglas B. Craig, Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940 (2000). Thomas Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934. (1999). Jay A. Gertzman, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 (1999). Saverio Giovacchini, Hollywood Modernism: Film and Politics in the Age of the New Deal (2001). Camille Guerin-Gonzales, Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 (1994). Anthony Heilbut, Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present (1938). Richard Krickus, Pursuing the American Dream (1976). Timothy P. Lynch, Strike Songs of the Depression (2001). Robert Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, Middletown in Transition (1935). Alice Goldfarb Marquis, Hopes and Ashes: The Birth of Modern Times, 1929--1939 (1986). Sean McCann, Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism (2000). Jeffrey Meikle, Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925--1939 (1979). Gilbert Osofsky, Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto (1966). Gilman Ostrander, American Civilization in the First Machine Age (1970). David P. Peeler, Hope Among Us Yet: Social Criticism and Social Thought in the Depression Years (1987). Richard Pells, Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years (1973). Thomas Schatz, The Genius of the System: Hollywood Film Making in the Studio Era (1988). Ed Sikov, Screwball: Hollywood's Madcap Romantic Comedies (1989). Erin A. Smith, Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines (2000). Warren Susman, Culture as History (1984). Michael Szalay, New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State. (2000). Julie A. Willett, Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop (2000). (See Suggested Readings at the end of Chapter 26 for more literature on African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Indians, and labor during the Depression.)

Women and the Depression. Julia K. Blackwelder, Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1919--1939 (1984). William Chafe, The American Woman (1972). Joan Jensen and Lois Scharf, eds., Decades of Discontent: The Women's Movement, 1920-1940 (1983). Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America (2003). Shirley Ann Moore and Quintard Taylor, Eds. African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 (2003). Marjorie Rosen, Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream (1971). Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930--1950 (1987). Lois Scharf, To Work and to Wed: Female Employment, Feminism, and the Great Depression (1980). Landon R. Y. Storrs, Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era (2000). Susan Ware, Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s (1982). Jeane Westin, Making Do: How Women Survived the `30s (1976). Patricia Zavella, Women's Work and Chicano Families (1987).

The Hoover Presidency. William J. Barber, From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, The Economists, and American Economic Policy, 1921--1933 (1985). David Burner, Herbert Hoover (1978). Kendrick A. Clements, Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life (2000). Martin Fausold, The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover (1985). Martin Fausold and George Mazuzun, eds., The Hoover Presidency (1974). Herbert Hoover, The Great Depression (1952). James S. Olsen, Herbert Hoover and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1977); Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933--1940 (1988). Albert U. Romasco, The Poverty of Abundance (1965). Jordan Schwarz, The Interregnum of Despair (1970). Harris Warren, Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1959). Joan Hoff Wilson, Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive (1975).

Politics and Protest. Gary Dean Best, FDR and the Bonus Marchers, 1933-1935 (1992). David Burner, The Politics of Provincialism (1967). Robert Cohen, When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941 (1993). Roger Daniels, The Bonus March (1971). Frank Freidel, The Triumph (1956); Launching the New Deal (1973). Donald Grubbs, Cry from the Cotton (1971). Dorothy Healey and Maurice Isserman, Dorothy Healey Remembers: A Life in the American Communist Party (1990). Irving Howe and Lewis Coser, The American Communist Party: A Critical History (1957). Robin D. G. Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990). Thomas Kessner, Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York (1989). Harvey Klehr, The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade (1984). Donald Lisio, The President and Protest: Hoover, Conspiracy, and the Bonus Riot (1974). Mark Naison, Communists in Harlem During the Depression (1983). Eliot Rosen, Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Brains Trust (1977). Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order (1957). John Shover, Cornbelt Rebellion (1965). Rexford G. Tugwell, The Brains Trust (1968).

Films.

The Great Depression (PBS Video, 1993). The Lemon Grove Incident (Cinema Guild, 1985). One Third of a Nation (Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1997). Union Maids (New Day Films, 1997).

Internet Resources.

Howard Frank Portfolio - http://www.howardfrank.com/
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library - http://www.hoover.archives.gov/index.html
The Lindbergh Case: The Trial of the Century - http://www.lindberghtrial.com/