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| What is a Document? | |
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| How to Read a Document | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The New Era and Its Undertaker: The Twenties, the Crash, and Herbert Hoover | |
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| Keep the Consumer Dissatisfied | |
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| Herbert Hoover's Optimism | |
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| Collapse | |
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| "When a Horse Balks" | |
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| Stormy Weather: Depression Life | |
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| Hooverville | |
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| City Breadlines | |
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| Rural Hardship | |
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| "A War Against the Emergency": The New Deal | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address | |
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| The First Fireside Chat | |
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| "The Social Economics of the New Deal" | |
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| An Open Letter to President Roosevelt | |
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| The Social Security Act | |
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| "W. P. A." | |
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| "And I Welcome Their Hatred": Business and the New Deal | |
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| The American Liberty League | |
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| Detending the New Deal | |
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| Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U. S. | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt Campaigns against Big Business | |
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| Which Side Are You on?: Labor Organizing in the Thirties | |
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| The National Labor Relations Act | |
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| A Call for Industrial Unionism | |
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| Finding Common Ground | |
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| "Dis What de Union Done" | |
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| Production for use, not Profit: The Left | |
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| "Whither the American Writer?" | |
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| "I Have Seen Black Hands" | |
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| "End Poverty in Civilization" | |
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| "Ballad of Roosevelt" | |
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| The Quick Fix: Panaceas | |
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| "Cure for Depressions" | |
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| Lecture on Social Justice | |
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| Share Our Wealth | |
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| "Woman can Change Better'n a Man": Women, Men, and Children in the Depression | |
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| Birth Rates | |
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| Maternalism | |
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| "Boy and Girl Tramps of America" | |
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| "Will Women Lose Their Jobs?" | |
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| "The Negro Was Born in Depression": Race and Ethnicity in the Thirties | |
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| A New Pattern of Life for the Indian | |
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| Getting By | |
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| The Mexican-American Dream | |
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| Mary Tsukamoto's Story | |
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| Down on the Farm: The Rural Depression | |
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| Rebellion in the Corn Belt | |
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| "Dust Bowl Diary" | |
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| Woody Guthrie on the Dust Bowl | |
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| Art for the Millions: Culture in the Thirties | |
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| Superman: New Deal Hero | |
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| Joe Louis Uncovers Dynamite | |
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| Federal Patronage of the Arts | |
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| Cinema in the Depression | |
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| The Mother and the Father of the Nation?: Attitudes Toward the Roosevelts | |
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| A Pre-Election View | |
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| A Letter from Wisconsin | |
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| Memorandum on "Court Packing" | |
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| "My Day" | |
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| Praise for Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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| "Social Values More Noble Than Mere Monetary Profit": The Great Depression and American Values | |
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| "Forgotten Man" Radio Address | |
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| Memories of a Southern White Girl | |
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| The Changed Social Life of a Migrant Camp | |
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| "Middletown in Transition" | |
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| "A Spirit of Charity" | |
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| "Over the Rainbow" | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Text Credits | |
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| Picture Credits | |
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| Index | |