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

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