Hard times and New Deal in Kentucky, 1929-1939 /

The Great Depression and the New Deal touched the lives of almost every Kentuckian during the 1930s. Fifty years later the Commonwealth is still affected by the legacies of that era and the policies of the Roosevelt administration. George T. Blakey has written the first full study of this turbulent...

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Autore principale: Blakey, George T.
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky ©1986.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt130hn5w
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Hard Times in the Commonwealth; 2. Banks, Homes, and the Indigent; 3. Relief and Public Works; 4. Kentucky Youth and the New Deal; 5. Newly Plowed Fields; Illustrations; 6. Getting Back to Business; 7. Politics and Other Natural Phenomena; 8. New Deal Legacy in Kentucky; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.