From School Library Journal Grade 10 Up-A collection of essays by noted scholars that looks at varying issues surrounding the era, including "Rural Poverty, Drought, and Migration"; "The Struggles of American Blacks"; "Depression-Era Cinema Reflected Social Values"; and "Social Security Protects the Elderly and Infirm." The standard subjects such as origins of the Depression, the Crash of 1929, and the initiatives of the New Deal are covered as well. An appendix of 22 documents including excerpts from campaign and inaugural speeches, press releases, and personal memoirs completes the volume. Libraries already owning such solid titles as Richard Wormser's Growing up in the Great Depression (Atheneum, 1994), Jacqueline Farrell's The Great Depression (Lucent, 1996), Nardo's The Great Depression (Greenhaven, 1997), and Victoria Sherrow's excellent Hardship and Hope (21st Century, 1995) may not need this additional entry.
