Hard Times: Living Through the Great Depression
About This Novel
On October 24, 1929, "Black Thursday", the U. S. Stock market plummeted. The U. S. And global economies have since entered a long Great Depression. For millions of people, life has become a struggle for food, clothing and shelter. There is widespread insecurity that affects everyone from the poor to the rich. Pulitzer Prize winner Sturtz Terkel interviewed hundreds of people from various industries and classes, from New Deal officials and business tycoons to farmers and workers. He used first-hand information to reflect how the Great Depression affected people's lives and how the hard days of that year are still memorable today. Turkel's works established a sustained, broad, bottom-up civilian history for the United States, and he himself became a symbol of the city of Chicago and the collective memory of generations of Americans.
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Official(1)Scraped 20d ago
A messy and unorganized patchwork book
Although the stories come from different people, and they may be relatively scattered when telling them, a qualified author should not simply repeat what he heard like a running account. Organizing the collected information, completing it with appropriate background information, and telling it into an organized story are the basic requirements for a book. This book fails to do that at all.
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Official(1)Scraped 20d ago
A messy and unorganized patchwork book
Although the stories come from different people, and they may be relatively scattered when telling them, a qualified author should not simply repeat what he heard like a running account. Organizing the collected information, completing it with appropriate background information, and telling it into an organized story are the basic requirements for a book. This book fails to do that at all.
