The Great Depression: A Diary

by Roth, Benjamin; Ledbetter, James; Roth, Daniel B

• ISBN13: 9781586489014
• ISBN10: 1586489011
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-31
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary.This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression--one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roth's depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to readers today.

Author Biography

James Ledbetter is the editor of “The Big Money,” Slate.com’s web site on business and economics.

Daniel B. Roth, son of Benjamin Roth, is the chairman of the law firm of Roth, Blair, Roberts, Strasfeld & Lodge in Youngstown, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. xiii
June 5, 1931-October 17, 1931	p. 1
October 20, 1931-November 11, 1932	p. 33
November 19, 1932-April 22, 1933	p. 77
April 26, 1933-December 28, 1933	p. 109
January 10, 1934-November 6, 1936	p. 145
December 4, 1936-September 11, 1939	p. 185
September 12, 1939-December 31, 1941	p. 219
For Further Reading	p. 253
Acknowledgments	p. 255
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