When the New Deal Came to Town
A Snapshot of a Place and Time with Lessons for Today
New York ; London ; Toronto : Threshold Editions, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: xvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
It's A Wonderful Life meets New Deal or Raw Deal? in this personal and social history of the New Deal from a conservative point of view, detailing the effects on the economy, culture, and the people of small American town from longtime Wall Street Journal editor George Melloan.
When the New Deal Came to Town is a snapshot of a time and place: Whiteland, Indiana during the Great Depression, one of the most fraught eras in American history.
Imagine yourself transported back in time to April of 1933 and deposited in a small American town, when a young boy named George Melloan moved with his family to this quiet hamlet during the middle of the worst economic period in American history. Part social history, part personal observations, When the New Deal Came to Town provides a keen eyewitness account of how the Depression affected everyday lives and applies those experiences to the larger arena of American politics.
Written with Melloan's signature "clarity and polemical skill" ( The Washington Times ), this is a fascinating narrative history that provides new insight into the Great Depression for a new generation.
When the New Deal Came to Town is a snapshot of a time and place: Whiteland, Indiana during the Great Depression, one of the most fraught eras in American history.
Imagine yourself transported back in time to April of 1933 and deposited in a small American town, when a young boy named George Melloan moved with his family to this quiet hamlet during the middle of the worst economic period in American history. Part social history, part personal observations, When the New Deal Came to Town provides a keen eyewitness account of how the Depression affected everyday lives and applies those experiences to the larger arena of American politics.
Written with Melloan's signature "clarity and polemical skill" ( The Washington Times ), this is a fascinating narrative history that provides new insight into the Great Depression for a new generation.
Contents:
Welcome to the village -- The family odyssey -- What crash? -- The farm lobby -- Economic stupidity -- Money fumbles -- Bashing the banks -- Farewell to sharecropping -- Bill hits the road -- Electric lights -- Balm to the spirit -- Ain't we got fun -- Little big man -- Whiteland's truckers -- But give the railroad their due -- A nation of sharecroppers -- Making food last -- The hucksters -- FDR locks up savings -- The farming fiats -- The blue eagle -- Warnings from Europe -- A store on the car line -- The second crash -- Other war stories -- War's aftermath -- The greatest generation? -- The progressives -- Whiteland today.
Subjects:
Melloan, George, 1927-2020 -- Childhood and youth.
New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Indiana -- Whiteland.
Whiteland (Ind.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Whiteland (Ind.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Melloan, George, 1927-2020 -- Childhood and youth.
New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Indiana -- Whiteland.
Whiteland (Ind.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Whiteland (Ind.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781501136085
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HISTORY North Am. US Mel | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
"First Threshold Editions trade paperback edition."