 | The Great Depression: America 1929-1941 by Robert S. McElvaine
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.79 McElvaine's book is currently the standard single-volume account of the Great Depression.
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 | The Great Depression by John A. Garraty
Buy used from: $0.58 Garraty's book is also a well-regarded survey, though one unfortunately now out of print.
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 | Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) by David M. Kennedy
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.93 Kennedy's volume in the "Oxford History of the United States" series includes a broad account of events and a well-argued reinterpretation of Hoover's role.
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 | The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)
Buy new: $81.00 / Used from: $59.93 |
| Great Contraction, 1929-1933: Chapter Seven of Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman
Buy used from: $6.92 This chapter from Friedman and Schwartz's classic "Monetary History of the United States" offers the monetarist's interpretation of the Depression
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 | Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? by Peter Temin
Buy new: $17.74 / Used from: $6.76 A good response to Friedman and Schwartz's argument.
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 | The World in Depression, 1929-1939, Revised and Enlarged edition (History of the World Economy in the Twentieth Century) by Charles P. Kindleberger
Buy new: $22.32 / Used from: $13.92 A standard account that examines the Depression's impact upon the world.
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 | Great Crash 1929, the (Penguin Business) (Spanish Edition) by John Kenneth Galbraith
Buy used from: $13.22 Though the 1929 stock market crash did not cause the Great Depression, it is indelibly associated with it. Galbraith's book is an excellent short account.
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 | Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 (NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development) by Barry Eichengreen
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $19.95 |
 | The Banking Panics of the Great Depression by Elmus Wicker
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $18.98 Though overshadowed by the crash, the collapse of the banking sector played a key role in the Great Depression.
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 | The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America by T. H. Watkins
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $3.85 |
 | Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.46 A superb collection of interviews that chronicle the impact of the Depression across the American spectrum.
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 | One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression by Lorena Hickok
Buy new: $16.46 / Used from: $8.25 A good collection of contemporary articles of the impact of the Depression on the people.
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 | Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man
Buy new: $16.11 / Used from: $9.55 |
 | Poor Man's Heaven: Blues & Tales of the Great Depression by Various Artists
Buy used from: $12.00 This is a good collection of remastered songs from the era, many of which were the anthems of the times.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $4.50 Steinbeck's classic novel is a powerful statement of how people responded to the Depression.
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| The Poverty of Abundance: Hoover, the Nation, the Depression (Galaxy Books) by Albert U. Romasco
Buy used from: $0.25 Romasco's is the classic account of the Hoover administration's response to the Depression.
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| Interregnum of Despair: Hoover, Congress, and the Depression by Jordan A. Schwarz
Buy used from: $17.64 |
 | The Bonus Army: An American Epic by Paul Dickson
Buy used from: $2.35 A well-written account of the march on Washington by World War I veterans seeking promised benefits -- and the governmet's callous response to them.
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 | The Great Depression - 1930's-40's - 5 Hours of Early Films on DVD
An interesting and diverse collection of films from the era, from New Deal promotional work to independent documentaries.
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 | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $90.78 Another documentary, one that mixes documentaries with other films from the era to convey the Depression and the decade it spawned.
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 | Lessons from the Great Depression (Lionel Robbins Lectures) by Peter Temin
Buy new: $16.13 / Used from: $15.00 |
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