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 lives than Dr. Spock. My mother, who learned about John Steinbeck’s work from a savvy nun at a Brooklyn high school, regarded the depiction of the Joad family’s struggle in The Grap (...)
November 06, 2009
Books
Facing the Music
Dancing in the DarkA Cultural History of the Great DepressionMorris Dickstein W. W. Norton, $29.95, 624 pp.
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