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1) Hard times: an oral history of the great depression

Author

Terkel, Studs

Language

English

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A re-creation of the America of the thirties, based on the reminiscences of a cross-section of people representing all walks of life, including several notable personalities.

2) Clara's kitchen: wisdom, memories, and recipes from the Great Depression

Author

Cannucciari, Clara

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Pub. Date

[2009]

Language

English

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YouTube® sensation Clara Cannucciari shares her treasured recipes and commonsense wisdom in a heartwarming remembrance of the Great Depression.
Clara Cannucciari became an internet sensation late in life, making cooking videos until her 96th birthday. Her YouTube® Great Depression Cooking channel garnered an army of devoted followers. Now, in Clara's Kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up America's spirits,

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3) A secret gift: how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression

Author

Gup, Ted

Publisher

Penguin Press

Pub. Date

2010.

Language

English

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The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's hidden past as well as the suffering and triumphs of strangers...

4) Hard times: an illustrated oral history of the Great Depression

Author

Terkel, Studs

Publisher

New Press

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

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Recreates the character and atmosphere of this dramatic era in a collage of recollections by both well-known and obscure Americans.

5) We had everything but money: love and sharing saw America's families through the Great Depression-- these are the memories of those who lived through it

Publisher

Roy Reiman

Pub. Date

[1992]

Language

English

6) The Great Depression: an eyewitness history

Author

Burg, David F

Publisher

Facts On File

Pub. Date

1996.

Language

English

Description

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Compiles a history of the Great Depression, including the events that led up to it and the New Deal that followed, with chronologies, personal narratives, and documents.

7) The hungry years: a narrative history of the Great Depression in America

Author

Watkins, T. H

Publisher

Henry Holt & Co

Pub. Date

1999.

Language

English

8) They never threw anything away: memories of the Great Depression by Americans who lived it

Author

Linz, Ed

Publisher

Exchange Publishing

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

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"Can history repeat? The parallels to the present are ominous: an international pandemic killing nearly 700,000 Americans, followed by a decade of booming stock markets and political turmoil....then years of unimaginable misery for so many -- an era so difficult that it became known as the Great Depression. They Never Threw Anything Away provides a fascinating, all-too-plausible comparison of then and now with stories narrated in their own words by...