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November 6, 2009 / Volume CXXXVI, Number 19  
BOOKS

Facing the Music

Dancing in the DarkA Cultural History of the Great DepressionMorris DicksteinW. W. Norton, $29.95, 624 pp.

Reviewed by David Castronovo

Many a baby boomer was raised on tales of the Great Depression, tales of sharecroppers, breadlines, NRA parades, and sparing a dime for a brother in need. These often played a bigger part in our (...)

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ABOUT THE WRITER

David Castronovo

David Castronovo is the author of many books of literary and cultural criticism, his latest being Blokes: The Bad Boys of English Literature. He is C. Richard Pace Professor at Pace University in New York City.

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