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Just Around the Corner: a Highly Selective History of the Thirties
Just Around the Corner a Highly Selective History of the Thirties Author:Robert Bendiner It was the worst of times, but it was also, in some measure, the best of times. It was a time when life in these United States became elemental and many discovered that they had more courage and imagination than they knew. — It was a time of personalities great and small, Fred Allen, John L. Lewis, Huey Long, Fathers Coughlin and Divine, Fiorello... more » La Guardia, Mae West, Harry Hopkins, and "Mr. Glad," anonymous friend of the jobless who dispensed coffee and nickels in Times Square. Robert Bendiner's lively and diverting social history not only brings fresh perspective to the big events of the Thirties - the Depression, the New Deal, the coming war - but it also captures innumerable smaller details that illuminate this watershed decade in U.S. history: The Swing Mikado, "Ham and Eggs Every Thursday," the fancied invasion from Mars, Information Please, the Lincoln Brigade, the Scottsboro boys, W.C. Fields vs. Charlie McCarthy. It is illustrated with fifty three photographs and twenty-four pages of cartoons and newspaper clippings.« less