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Hope restored : how the New Deal worked in town and country

In the suffering and poverty of the Great Depression, American morale received a shock as powerful as the economic collapse. Many Americans who had nurtured a deep faith in democracy, hard work, and a free economy suddenly found themselves questioning their system. Others feared that in combating the depression, democracy might give way to the totalitarianism of the left or right
Print Book, English, ©1999
Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, ©1999