Hope restored : how the New Deal worked in town and country / edited with an introduction by Bernard Sternsher.

Other author Sternsher, Bernard, 1925-2011
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : Ivan R. Dee, ©1999.
Description247 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
New Deal, 1933-1939.
United States--Economic conditions. --1918-1945.
United States--Politics and government. --1933-1945.
United States--Social conditions. --1933-1945.

Contents New Deal in Atlanta: a review of the major programs / Douglas L. Fleming -- Civilian Conservation Corps in Mobile County, Alabama / Billy G. Hinson -- New Deal in Pocatello / Merwin R. Swanson -- Impoverished politics: the New Deal's impact on city government in Providence, Rhode Island / David L. Davies -- Flint and the Great Depression / William H. Chafe -- Civil Works Administration in Grand Forks County, North Dakota / Roger D. Hardaway -- PWA in Tampa: a case study / Charles B. Lowry -- "State of emergency": Key West in the Great Depression / Garry Boulard.
Contents Persistence of the past: Memphis in the Great Depression / Roger Biles -- Politics and relief in Minneapolis during the 1930s / Raymond L. Koch -- "Heavenly Houston" or "hellish Houston"? Black unemployment and relief efforts, 1929-1936 / Randy J. Sparks -- "N.Y.A. at the sea-side": a New Deal episode / John A. Salmond -- Stitching and striking: WPA sewing rooms and the 1937 relief strike in Hillsborough County / James Francis Tidd -- Dawson County responds to the New Deal, 1933-1940 / Jerold Simmons.
Local noteLittle-328566--3051310266880
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 98054093
ISBN0929587847 (acid-free paper)
ISBN1566630037 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HC106.3 .H654 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold