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One third of a nation : Lorena Hickok reports on the Great Depression by Lorena A Hickok; Richard Lowitt; Maurine Hoffman Beasley is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is One third of a nation : Lorena Hickok reports on the Great Depression about?
Between 1933 and 1935, Lorena Hickok traveled across thirty-two states as a "confidential investigator" for Harry Hopkins, head of FDR's Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Her assignment was to gather information about the day-to-day toll the Depression was exacting on individual citizens. One Third of a Nation is her record, underscored by the eloquent photographs of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and others, of the shocking plight of millions of unemployed and dispossessed Americans.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lorena A Hickok; Richard Lowitt; Maurine Hoffman Beasley
- Publisher
- Urbana: University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252010965
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Economics, Social Science, Business
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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