The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941
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The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941 (ISBN 978-0812923278) is a 1984 novel by acclaimed historian Robert S. McElvaine. In the cleometric work, McElvaine discusses the causes and the results of the worst depression in American history, covering the time from 1929 to 1941. McElvaine's focus is mostly on the economics.
[edit] Literary significance and reception
McElvaine received high praise his work. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called it "fair-minded, incisive, thoroughly informed, and eminently readable."[citation needed] In The New York Times Book Review, Morris Dickstein wrote "It would be hard to find a fairer or more balanced account of how the American people and their leaders learned to grapple with their greatest economic crisis."[1]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Dickstein, Morris. NYTime review of "The Great Depression". nytimes.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-14.
