Hard Times
An Oral History of The Great Depression

Terkel, Studs
Publisher:  Pantheon Books, New York, USA
Year Published:  1970  
Pages:  462pp  
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX7444

In a series of interviews, Studs Terkel captures a mosaic of memories of the Great Depression in the United States.

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Table of Contents

Book I:
1. The March
2. The Song
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. Hard Travelin'
5. The Big Money
6. Man and Boy
7. God Bless the Child
8. Bonnie Labouring Boy
9. Three Strikes

Book II:
10. Old Families
11. Members of the Chorus
12. High Life
13. At the Clinic
14. Sixteen Ton
15. The Farmer is the Man
16. Editor and Publisher

Book III:
17. Concerning the New Deal
18. An Unreconstructed Populist
19. Peroration
20. Scarlet Banners and Novenas
21. The Doctor, Huey and Mr Smith
22. The Circuit Rider
23. The Gentleman from Kansas
24. A View of the Woods
25. Campus Life

Book IV:
26. Merely Passing Through
27. Three O'Clock in the Morning
28. A Cable

Book V:
29. The Fine and Lively Arts
30. Public Servant - The City
31. Evictions, Arrests and Other Running Sores
32. Honour and Humiliation
33. Strive and Succeed

Epilogue