The Great Depression

Four Streets and a Square: A History of Manhattan and the New York Idea by Marc Aronson

Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s, Revised Edition by Francisco E. Balderrama & Raymond Rodríguez

The Causes of the 1929 Stock Market Crash: A Speculative Orgy or a New Era? by Harold Bierman Jr.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H. W. Brands

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow

Eyewitness to Wall Street: 400 Years of Dreamers, Schemers, Busts and Booms by David Colbert

Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: The Defining Years, 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Hobo: A Young Man’s Thoughts on Trains and Tramping in America by Eddy Joe Cotton

Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life by Kathleen Dalton

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939 by Roger Daniels

FDR, the New Deal Years, 1933-1937 by Kenneth Sydney Davis

The Bonus Army: An American Epic by Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage by Kirstin Downey

A Nation in Torment: The Great American Depression, 1929-1939 by Edward Robb Ellis

The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover by Martin L. Fausold

Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life by Steve Fraser

FDR’s Splendid Deception by Hugh Gregory Gallagher

The Great Depression: An Inquiry Into the Causes, Course, and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-Thirties, as Seen by Contemporaries and in the Light of History by John Arthur Garraty

Wall Street: A History by Charles Geist

Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century by Michael A. Hiltzik

Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929-1939 by Abraham Hoffman

The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Great Depression 1929–1941 by Herbert Hoover

The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes by Harold LeClair Ickes

The Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker: 1928-1933 by Glen Jeansonne

Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Roy Jenkins & Richard E. Neustadt

The Money Lords: The Great Finance Capitalists, 1925-1950 by Matthew Josephson

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy

Exploring the American Presidency Through 50 Historic Treasures by Kimberly A. Kenney

FDR’s First Fireside Chat: Public Confidence and the Banking Crisis by Amos Kiewe

Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929 by Maury Klein

1929: The Year of the Great Crash by William Klingaman

Herbert Hoover: The American Presidents Series: The 31st President, 1929-1933 by William Leuchtenburg

Reminiscences by Douglas MacArthur

Madam Secretary, Frances Perkins by George W. Martin

The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal: The Twilight of Constitutionalism and the Triumph of Progressivism by Paul D. Moreno

Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People by John M. Murrin, Pekka Hämäläinen, Paul E. Johnson, Denver Brunsman, & James M. McPherson

A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation by Scott Nations

The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora’s Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance by Michael Perino

The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins

Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life by Joseph E. Persico

Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency by Charles Rappleye

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt

This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt

An Untold Story: The Roosevelt of Hyde Park by Elliott Roosevelt & James Brough

An Economic History of the United States: From 1607 to the Present by Ronald Seavoy

FDR by Jean Edward Smith

The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market by Robert Sobel

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel

The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 by Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts

Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd: Eleanor’s Rival, FDR’s Other Love by Christine M. Totten

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition by Eric D. Weitz

Wall Street by Walter Werner & Steven Smith

Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times by Kenneth Whyte

A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by Jane Ziegelman & Andrew Coe

Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines by Lewis Wickes Hine

The Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine

William Van Alen, Fred T. Ley and the Chrysler Building by George C. Kingston

Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan’s Skyscrapers by Jason M. Barr

Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City by Neal Bascomb

Lindbergh by A. Scott Bergh

The American Aviation Experience: A History. by Tim Brady

The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying And Of Women in Aviation. by Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart: Beyond the Grave by W. C. Jameson

The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart by Mary S. Lovell

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