Summary
Praise for the previous edition:
"The text is clearly written...valuable...Recommended."—Library Media Connection
In 1933, in his first inaugural address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, "...the only thing we have to fear is fear itself..." Yet, Roosevelt knew that the fear he spoke of was grounded in reality. With one-third of the nation's workforce unemployed, grown men scrounged in garbage cans for discarded scraps to feed their families. Six thousand street-corner apple vendors sold their product in New York City alone. Fear, indeed, stocked the land of the 1930s during Great Depression—a defining event of 20th-century America. With the introduction of Roosevelt's New Deal, many families found relief through public works projects and other government-funded posts.
The Great Depression and the New Deal, Updated Edition describes how the nation coped and how it overcame a true national calamity. Bolstered by extensive photographs, this curriculum-based eBook is ideal for students writing reports.
About the Author(s)
Ronald A. Reis has written young adult biographies of Eugenie Clark, Jonas Salk, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Sitting Bull, Buffalo Bill, and Simón Bolívar, as well as books about the Dust Bowl, the New York City subway system, the Empire State Building, African Americans and the Civil War, and the World Trade Organization, all for Chelsea House. He is the technology department chair at Los Angeles Valley College.