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Table of Contents
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Part I: Heading into a Mess.
Chapter 1: It Was a Dark and Stormy Decade.
Chapter 2: Economic Basics: You Say “Depression,” I Say “Broke”.
Chapter 3: Prelude to Disaster: The Economy Prior to 1929.
Part II: Getting Depressed.
Chapter 4: Going Bust: A Depression Is Born.
Chapter 5: Coming Face to Face with Hard Times.
Chapter 6: Troubles on the Farm.
Chapter 7: Misery Loves Company: How the Rest of the World Fared.
Part III: Living Through the Great Depression.
Chapter 8: On the Road.
Chapter 9: Demagogues and Desperadoes.
Chapter 10: Having Fun in Spite of It All.
Chapter 11: Labor Rising: Unions in the Great Depression.
Part IV: Fixing Things.
Chapter 12: A Tale of Two Presidents.
Chapter 13: Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Chapter 14: Lessons Learned from the Great Depression.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 15: Ten Good Movies Made in or about the Great Depression.
Chapter 16: Ten Things Invented or Popularized in the Great Depression.
Chapter 17: Ten Not-So-Depressing Things about the Great Depression.
Appendix: For Further Reading.
Index.
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