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Author Dickstein, Morris.

Title Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression / Morris Dickstein.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  973.91 Dic    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxiii, 598 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.
Source NBK 3/10 PPL
Subject Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
ISBN 9780393072259
0393072258

 
    
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