Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression

by David Welky

Book Overview

As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that holding to these values would get them through hard times. Through analysis of the era's most popular newspaper stories, magazines, and books, Welky examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252032993
• ISBN13: 9780252032998
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"