What do Shirley Temple, the New Deal, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Hindenburg, Amelia Earhart, and Jesse Owens have in common? Each, in some way, helped define the 1930s, a period marked by widespread poverty, isolationism, and economic setback during the Great Depression. Author Stephen Feinstein describes the triumphs, tragedies, fads, and fashions of the decade from President Herbert Hoover to Babe Didrikson, from the game Monopoly to the horror of Kristallnacht.
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What do Shirley Temple, the New Deal, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Hindenburg, Amelia Earhart, and Jesse Owens have in common? Each, in some way, helped define the 1930s, a period marked by widespread poverty, isolationism, and economic setback during the Great Depression. Author Stephen Feinstein describes the triumphs, tragedies, fads, and fashions of the decade from President Herbert Hoover to Babe Didrikson, from the game Monopoly to the horror of Kristallnacht.
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