The American 1930s

by Peter Conn

Book Overview

Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929 and ending with America's entry into the Second World War, the long Depression decade was a period of immense social, economic and political turmoil. In response, writers as various as John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Langston Hughes, Pearl S. Buck and others looked to the past to make sense of the present. In this important new study of the 1930s, the distinguished cultural historian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521734312
• ISBN13: 9780521734318
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 8.9"