<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "United States — Economic conditions — 1918-1945."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "United States — Economic conditions — 1918-1945."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/sandiego/rss/search?query=%22United%20States%20%E2%80%94%20Economic%20conditions%20%E2%80%94%201918-1945.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:11:30 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[1929]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book examines the events surrounding the United States stock market crash of 1929 and the economic conditions that contributed to the onset of the Great Depression. Drawing on historical records and archival research, the author reconstructs the period leading up to the collapse and the interactions among financial leaders, government officials, and market participants. Focusing on the relationship between Wall Street and Washington, the narrative explores the roles of speculation, policy decisions, and public confidence in shaping the crisis. The book places the crash within a broader historical context, emphasizing recurring patterns in financial markets and the social and political consequences of large-scale economic upheaval.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1959755</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1959755</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sorkin, Andrew Ross]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1959755161</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered A Nation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780593949245&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[1929]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, "the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis," comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history. With the depth of a classic history and the drama of a thriller, 1929 unravels the greed, blind optimism, and human folly that led to an era-defining collapse-one with ripple effects that still shape our society today. In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded-one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin. With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivete in an endless boom led to disaster. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today's world-where markets soar, political tensions mount, and the fight over financial influence plays out once again. This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that "this time is different." It's about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming-only to be dismissed until it was too late. Hailed as a landmark book, Too Big to Fail reimagined how financial crises are told. Now, with 1929, Sorkin delivers an immersive, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time-with lessons that remain as urgent as ever. More than just a history, 1929 is a crucial blueprint for understanding the cycles of speculation, the forces that drive financial upheaval, and the warning signs we ignore at our peril"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1933246</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1933246</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sorkin, Andrew Ross]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1933246161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History-- and How It Shattered A Nation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780593296967&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[1929]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the bestselling author of Too big to fail, "the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis," comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history. With the depth of a classic history and the drama of a thriller, 1929 unravels the greed, blind optimism, and human folly that led to an era-defining collapse-one with ripple effects that still shape our society today. In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded-one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin. With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivete in an endless boom led to disaster. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today's world-where markets soar, political tensions mount, and the fight over financial influence plays out once again. This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that "this time is different." It's about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming-only to be dismissed until it was too late. Hailed as a landmark book, Too Big to Fail reimagined how financial crises are told. Now, with 1929, Sorkin delivers an immersive, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time-with lessons that remain as urgent as ever. More than just a history, 1929 is a crucial blueprint for understanding the cycles of speculation, the forces that drive financial upheaval, and the warning signs we ignore at our peril"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1950766</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1950766</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sorkin, Andrew Ross]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1950766161</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered A Nation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9798217288113&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding the Rails]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tells the story of the 250,000 teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight trains during the Great Depression.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1014602</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1014602</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1014602161</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781578079759&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six Days in October]]></title><description><![CDATA[A comprehensive review of the events, personalities, and mistakes behind the Stock Market Crash of 1929, featuring photographs, newspaper articles, and cartoons of the day.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C999877</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C999877</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Blumenthal, Karen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/999877161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Stock Market Crash of 1929</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780689842764&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Can We Learn From the Great Depression?]]></title><description><![CDATA["Four stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1834337</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1834337</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Frank, Dana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1834337161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780807046906&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[1932]]></title><description><![CDATA["In one vitally significant year in American history, the country would experience turmoil, instability, natural disaster, bubbling political radicalism, and a rise of dangerous forces ushering in a new era of global conflict--and emerge both afresh and revitalized. At the start of 1932, the nation's worst economic crisis has left one-in-four workers without a job, countless families facing eviction, banks shutting down as desperate depositors withdraw their savings, and growing social and political unrest from urban centers to the traditionally conservative rural heart of the country. Amid this turmoil, a political decision looms that will determine the course of the nation. It is a choice between two men with very diferent visions of America: Incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover with his dogmatic embrace of small government and a largely unfettered free market, and New York's Democratic Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his belief that the path out of the economic crisis requires government intervention in the economy and a national sense of shared purpose. Now veteran journalist Scott Martelle provides a gripping narrative retelling of that vitally significant year as social and political systems struggled under the weight of the devastating Dust Bowl, economic woes, rising political protests, and growing demand for the repeal of Prohibition. That November, voters overwhelmingly rejected decades of Republican rule and backed Roosevelt and his promise to redefine the role of the federal government while putting the needs of the people ahead of the wishes of the wealthy. Deftly told, this illuminating work spotlights parallel events from that pivotal year and brings to life figures who made headlines in their time but have been largely forgotten today. Ultimately, it is the story of a nation that, with the help of a leader determined to unite and inspire, took giant steps toward a new America"-- Amazon.com.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1769242</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1769242</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Martelle, Scott]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1769242161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>FDR, Hoover and the Dawn of A New America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780806541860&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great Depression]]></title><description><![CDATA[Delves into the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and how it affected people, how the American public worked together to get through the massive hardships, and how the economy recovered with World War II. Examine the changes that swept the shaken nation during the first year - from the landslide victory of FDR in 1932 to Dust Bowl farmers. Americans sought release from the hard times wherever they could find it - from marathon dancing to going to the movies. As the Depression lingered and the New Deal failed to live up to people's expectations, some Americans fought back against the system. After years of crisis, WWII approached and did what all the protests and recovery programs failed to do - end the Depression. Includes photos, rare interviews, and footage of the culture, media, and politics of the times.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C123686</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C123686</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/123686161</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=733961154887&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Forgotten Man]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through brave leadership they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation. Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they discovered their errors. She shows how both Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s and heaped massive burdens on the country that more than offset the benefit of New Deal programs. The real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it--it is why it lasted so long.--From publisher description.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C43870</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C43870</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shlaes, Amity]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/43870161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A New History of the Great Depression</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780060936426&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?]]></title><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C824974</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C824974</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Meltzer, Milton]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 1991 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/824974161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Great Depression, 1929-1933</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780816023721&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard Times]]></title><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C73187</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C73187</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Terkel, Studs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/73187161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Oral History of the Great Depression</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Forgotten Man]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revisionist history from Bloomberg syndicated columnist Shlaes, who argues that federal intervention helped prolong the Great Depression.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1235003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1235003</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shlaes, Amity]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1235003161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A New History of the Great Depression</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780066211701&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pieza a pieza]]></title><description><![CDATA["During the Great Depression, Ernestine Guerrero's family didn't have much. This is the true story of a resourceful Mexican American teen who made a gift to thank President Roosevelt for the food aid that helped them survive. Now in Spanish"-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1852940</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1852940</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruiz-Flores, Lupe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1852940161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>el obsequio de Ernestine para el presidente Roosevelt</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9798765644034&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Chance to Harmonize]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest--Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas across the country, an experiment in cooperative living where people could start over. To boost morale and encourage the homesteaders to find community in their own traditions, the administration brought in artists to lead group activities--including folk music. As part of a music unit led by Charles Seeger (father of Pete), staffer Sidney Robertson traveled the country to record hundreds of folk songs. Music leaders, most notably Margaret Valiant, were sent to homesteads to use the collected songs to foster community and cooperation. Working almost entirely (and purposely) under the radar, the music unit would collect more than 800 songs and operate for nearly two years, until they were shut down under fire from a conservative coalition in Congress that deemed the entire homestead enterprise dangerously "socialistic." Despite its early demise, the music unit proved that music can provide hope and a sense of belonging even in the darkest times. It also laid the groundwork for the folk revival that followed, seeing the rise of artists like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Odetta, and Bob Dylan"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1802678</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1802678</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kaskowitz, Sheryl]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1802678161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How FDR&apos;s Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America From the Great Depression--one Song at A Time</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781639365715&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taming the Street]]></title><description><![CDATA["Taming the Street tells the epic story of the FDR's battle to regulate Wall Street for the very first time in the wake of the Crash of 1929 that ushered in the Great Depression. Deeply reported and vividly told, it provides a trip back to a time when the power of concentrated wealth in America arguably exceeded that of the federal government. Roosevelt's campaign to curb the excesses of the market, end reckless speculation, and mitigate the disastrous boom-and-bust cycle is one of the great untold dramas in American history, and as it unfolded, its outcome was far from clear. Henriques has written this book for two main reasons: First, because it's a vital history that needs to be preserved and properly told; and as importantly, because the battle lines that were drawn in that time are the very same battle lines that define our politics today. Taming the Street is a book rooted in the drama of the 1930s, but as inequality in America has again reached Jazz Age levels, one of Henriques' many ambitions for the book is to bring to life a time when the system worked in the public interest. An idealistic time when we knew what had to be done, and summoned the will to do it, against the power of an American oligarchy"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1754241</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1754241</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Henriques, Diana B.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1754241161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR&apos;s Fight to Regulate American Capitalism</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780593132647&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why the New Deal Matters]]></title><description><![CDATA["The greatest peaceable expression of common purpose in US history, the New Deal altered Americans' relationship with politics, economics, and one another in ways that continue to resonate today. No matter where you look in America, there is likely a building or bridge built through New Deal initiatives. If you have taken out a small business loan from the federal government or drawn unemployment, you can thank the New Deal. While certainly flawed in many aspects - the New Deal was implemented by a Democratic Party still beholden to the segregationist South for its majorities in Congress and the Electoral College - the New Deal was instated at a time of mass unemployment and the rise of fascistic government models and functioned as a bulwark of American democracy in hard times. This book looks at how this legacy, both for good and ill, informs the current debates around governmental responses to crises"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1593678</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1593678</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rauchway, Eric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1593678161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780300252002&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Darkest Year]]></title><description><![CDATA["The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman's narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war. For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite government attempts to disguise the magnitude of American losses, it was clear that the nation had suffered a nearly unbroken string of military setbacks in the Pacific; by the autumn of 1942, government officials were openly acknowledging the possibility that the United States might lose the war. Appeals for unity and declarations of support for the war effort in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor made it appear as though the class hostilities and partisan animosities that had beset the United States for decades -- and grown sharper during the Depression -- suddenly disappeared. They did not, and a deeply divided American society splintered further during 1942 as numerous interest groups sought to turn the wartime emergency to their own advantage. Blunders and repeated displays of incompetence by the Roosevelt administration added to the sense of anxiety and uncertainty that hung over the nation. The Darkest Year focuses on Americans' state of mind not only through what they said, but in the day-to-day details of their behavior. Klingaman blends these psychological effects with the changes the war wrought in American society and culture, including shifts in family roles, race relations, economic pursuits, popular entertainment, education, and the arts."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C562779</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C562779</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Klingaman, William K.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/562779161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The American Home Front, 1941-1942</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781250133175&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Tell the Truth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Working For Change: explores the birth of the social documentary, featuring interviews with several of the people who helped define and shape the form. The Strategy Of Truth: explores the role of film as propaganda during World War II, and the different forms it took in the US, the UK, and Germany. It also raises the central question of whether a film can be both documentary, reflecting the truth, and propaganda.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C395319</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C395319</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/395319161</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=854565002005&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Rabble of Dead Money]]></title><description><![CDATA["The Great Crash of 1929 profoundly disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The breakneck growth of 1920s America--with its boom in automobiles, electricity, credit lines, radio, and movies--certainly presaged a serious recession by the decade's end, but not a depression. The totality of the collapse shocked the nation, and its duration scarred generations to come. In this lucid and fast-paced account of the cataclysm, award-winning writer Charles R. Morris pulls together the intricate threads of policy, ideology, international hatreds, and sheer individual cantankerousness that finally pushed the world economy over the brink and into a depression. While Morris anchors his narrative in the United States, he also fully investigates the poisonous political atmosphere of postwar Europe to reveal how treacherous the environment of the global economy was. It took heroic financial mismanagement, a glut-induced global collapse in agricultural prices, and a self-inflicted crash in world trade to cause the Great Depression. Deeply researched and vividly told, A Rabble of Dead Money anatomizes history's greatest economic catastrophe--while noting the uncanny echoes for the present."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C411104</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C411104</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Morris, Charles R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/411104161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Great Crash and the Global Depression, 1929-1939</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781610395342&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rise and Fall of American Growth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Examines the economic growth of the United States since the Civil War, arguing that the rate of growth between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated and that a number of issues are further stagnating the already slow rate of productivity growth.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C353471</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C353471</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gordon, Robert J.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/353471161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780691147727&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[1920]]></title><description><![CDATA[The American decade known as "The Roaring Twenties" continues to hold our collective fascination. But how did this surge of innovation and cultural milestones emerge from the ashes of The Great War? Eric Burns examines the crucial year of 1920, the first full year of armistice. From prohibition to immigration, the vote for women, the birth of jazz, the rise of expatriate literature, and the original Ponzi scheme, 1920 was a year like no other.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C335508</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C335508</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Burns, Eric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/335508161</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>The Year That Made the Decade Roar</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781410481849&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[No End Save Victory]]></title><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C278925</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C278925</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kaiser, David E.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/278925161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How FDR Led the Nation Into War</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780465019823&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Forgotten Depression]]></title><description><![CDATA["By the publisher of the prestigious Grant's Interest Rate Observer, an account of the deep economic slump of 1920-21 that proposes, with respect to federal intervention, "less is more." This is a free-market rejoinder to the Keynesian stimulus applied by Bush and Obama to the 2007-09 recession, in whose aftereffects, Grant asserts, the nation still toils. James Grant tells the story of America's last governmentally-untreated depression; relatively brief and self-correcting, it gave way to the Roaring Twenties. His book appears in the fifth year of a lackluster recovery from the overmedicated downturn of 2007-2009. In 1920-21, Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding met a deep economic slump by seeming to ignore it, implementing policies that most twenty-first century economists would call backward. Confronted with plunging prices, wages, and employment, the government balanced the budget and, through the Federal Reserve, raised interest rates. No "stimulus" was administered, and a powerful, job-filled recovery was under way by late in 1921. In 1929, the economy once again slumped--and kept right on slumping as the Hoover administration adopted the very policies that Wilson and Harding had declined to put in place. Grant argues that well-intended federal intervention, notably the White House-led campaign to prop up industrial wages, helped to turn a bad recession into America's worst depression. He offers the experience of the earlier depression for lessons for today and the future. This is a powerful response to the prevailing notion of how to fight recession. The enterprise system is more resilient than even its friends give it credit for being, Grant demonstrates"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C303991</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C303991</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Grant, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/303991161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>1921: the Crash That Cured Itself</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781451686456&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[America 1933]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first account of the remarkable 18-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the unprecedented ravages; an indelible portrait of an unprecedented crisis.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C243886</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C243886</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Golay, Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/243886161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781439196014&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coolidge]]></title><description><![CDATA[A brilliant and provocative reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C233624</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C233624</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shlaes, Amity]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/233624161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780061967559&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item></channel></rss>