American Anxieties: A Collective Portrait of the 1930s

by Louis Filler

American Anxieties is a brilliant, unorthodox portrait of the 1930s. Filler does what others have tried, but few have succeeded in accomplishing: he captures the continuity between the 1930s and the 1990s. He does this less by personal accounts or statistical comparisons, than by the emphasis upon a common core of concerns that link the recent past with the present in American society and culture.The decade of the 1930s was unique in the history of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560006722
• ISBN13: 9781560006725
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 378 Pages