Provides a detailed account of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, as well as President Franklin D. Roosevelts ambitious program of New Deal reforms.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• How to Use This Book
• NARRATIVE OVERVIEW
• Prologue
• Chapter One: The Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash
• Chapter Two: The Hoover Years
• Chapter Three: Roosevelt and the First New Deal
• Chapter Four: The Dust Bowl
• Chapter Five: The Second New Deal
• Chapter Six: Wartime Prosperity
• Chapter Seven: Legacy of the Great Depression and the New Deal
• BIOGRAPHIES
• Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) U.S. President during the Early Years of the Great Depression
• Harry Lloyd Hopkins (1890-1946) New Deal Administrator and Presidential Advisor
• Hugh S.Johnson (1882-1942) Director of the New Deal's National Recovery Administration
• Frances Perkins (1880-1965) Progressive Activist and Secretary of Labor during the Great Depression
• Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the United States of America during the Great Depression
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) U.S. President during the Later Years of the Great Depression and World War II
• Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) Secretary of Agriculture during the Great Depression and Vice President during World War II
• PRIMARY SOURCES
• Remembering a Depression Childhood
• Herbert Hoover Predicts a Quick Recovery
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
• Praise for the Civilian Conservation Corps
• An Excerpt from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
• Woody Guthrie Describes the Dust Bowl.
• Remembering “Black Sunday”
• Battling the Dust Bowl and Rural Poverty
• Roosevelt Unveils the Second New Deal
• The Saturday Evening Post Condemns Roosevelt and the New Deal
• A Rabbi's Letter of Thanks to Roosevelt
• Important People, Places, and Terms
• Chronology
• Sources for Further Study
• Photo and Illustration Credits