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Great Depression : A Dairy by Benjamin Roth (2009, Hardcover)
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In the early 1920s, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer fresh out of the army. He settled in Youngstown, Ohio, a booming Midwestern industrial town. Penning brief, clear-eyed notes on the crisis which unfolded around him, Roth struggled to understand the complex forces governing political and economic life.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPublic Affairs
ISBN-10158648799X
ISBN-139781586487997
eBay Product ID (ePID)4038433851
Product Key Features
Book TitleGreat Depression : a Dairy
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicEconomic History, Economic Conditions, General
IllustratorYes
GenreBusiness & Economics, History
AuthorBenjamin Roth
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight19.4 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2009-026790
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsCharles R. Morris,The Trillion Dollar Meltdown "Benjamin Roth has left us a vivid portrait of the Great Depression that is all the more powerful for the similarities and differences with the financial upheavals of today. Roth enables us -- in ways no historian can match -- to immerse ourselves in the sense of despair that Americans of that era felt and their hope that the economy would revive, long before it did. To read the diaries now is both enlightening and chilling."Jonathan Alter,The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope "We imagine the Great Depression at two extremes--Franklin Roosevelt's jaunty smile and the haunting images of Dustbowl destitution. But in between were everyday middle class strivers like Benjamin Roth, trying to sort through the wreckage. FDR and the WPA may be long gone but the professional class remains, and the record of its struggle in the Depression has been thin until now. Roth's incisive diaries are more than a precious time capsule. They speak to our economic hopes and fears directly, and to the bewilderment of our own time." , Charles R. Morris, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown "Benjamin Roth has left us a vivid portrait of the Great Depression that is all the more powerful for the similarities and differences with the financial upheavals of today. Roth enables us -- in ways no historian can match -- to immerse ourselves in the sense of despair that Americans of that era felt and their hope that the economy would revive, long before it did. To read the diaries now is both enlightening and chilling." Jonathan Alter, The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope "We imagine the Great Depression at two extremes--Franklin Roosevelt's jaunty smile and the haunting images of Dustbowl destitution. But in between were everyday middle class strivers like Benjamin Roth, trying to sort through the wreckage. FDR and the WPA may be long gone but the professional class remains, and the record of its struggle in the Depression has been thin until now. Roth's incisive diaries are more than a precious time capsule. They speak to our economic hopes and fears directly, and to the bewilderment of our own time." New York Times "Mr. Roth's diaries … are compelling reading, because they force readers to reflect on both the similarities and the differences between then and now…. We're all a little like Benjamin Roth, asking questions we don't know the answer to, and wonder, as he did 70 years ago, whether the crisis is, indeed, over." Spectator Business (UK) "Here are brief, unsentimental, clear-eyed notes of the growing sense of hopelessness that came over Midwestern American life. This moving book is edited by [Roth's] son Daniel." MoneySense "A fascinating read, and strangely familiar." Financial Times "[Roth's] entries compellingly detail the everyday" Seattle Times "Roth's diary is plainly written and professionally edited. It is a window on another age." Minneapolis Star-Tribune "There is an honest searching quality to his day-by-day accounts of banks closing, bread lines forming, friends failing. Striving to understand, he provides a remarkable and often engagingly literate discussion of the great Depression's impact on people like him.", Charles R. Morris, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown "Benjamin Roth has left us a vivid portrait of the Great Depression that is all the more powerful for the similarities and differences with the financial upheavals of today. Roth enables us -- in ways no historian can match -- to immerse ourselves in the sense of despair that Americans of that era felt and their hope that the economy would revive, long before it did. To read the diaries now is both enlightening and chilling." Jonathan Alter, The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope "We imagine the Great Depression at two extremes--Franklin Roosevelt's jaunty smile and the haunting images of Dustbowl destitution. But in between were everyday middle class strivers like Benjamin Roth, trying to sort through the wreckage. FDR and the WPA may be long gone but the professional class remains, and the record of its struggle in the Depression has been thin until now. Roth's incisive diaries are more than a precious time capsule. They speak to our economic hopes and fears directly, and to the bewilderment of our own time." New York Times "Mr. Roth's diaries & are compelling reading, because they force readers to reflect on both the similarities and the differences between then and now&. We're all a little like Benjamin Roth, asking questions we don't know the answer to, and wonder, as he did 70 years ago, whether the crisis is, indeed, over." Spectator Business (UK) "Here are brief, unsentimental, clear-eyed notes of the growing sense of hopelessness that came over Midwestern American life. This moving book is edited by [Roth's] son Daniel." MoneySense "A fascinating read, and strangely familiar." Financial Times "[Roth's] entries compellingly detail the everyday" Seattle Times "Roth's diary is plainly written and professionally edited. It is a window on another age." Minneapolis Star-Tribune "There is an honest searching quality to his day-by-day accounts of banks closing, bread lines forming, friends failing. Striving to understand, he provides a remarkable and often engagingly literate discussion of the great Depression's impact on people like him."
Dewey Decimal330.973/0917
SynopsisThis is a first-person diary account of living through the Great Depression, with haunting parallels to our own time. It tells the story through Benjamin Roth, who was born in New York City in 1894.
LC Classification NumberHB3717
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