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Title: Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
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Author: David E. Kyvig
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• Posted on 2009-04-18
  History might repeat itself
  
  Combined with the Forgotten Man this is book offers the reasons to fight not to let the American economy fall into the mess of the 30's and 40's. Just sitting around waiting to be saved is no answer. Knowledge and then action to prevent the situations described in the book are necessary.
  
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• Posted on 2009-03-05
  Fantastic Book!
  
  I could not put this book down...certainly was the cause of a few tired mornings at work for keeping me up too late! It covers all the small details of life that most history books never get into. I was fascinated by all the "mundane" aspects of life that the author does a great job of describing in detail. You really get a good sense of what life was like during this time. I highly recommend it.
  
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• Posted on 2008-12-16
  Just What I Was Looking For
  
  There are many books out there about the Depression years, but they usually only give a VERY brief introduction to the era, then begin more or less in October of 1929, and are mostly historical rather than sociological. This author realized the importance to the reader of understanding the decade leading up to the Crash and the Depression, as well as learning about day-to-day life as it was lived by average Americans in order to reach a full understanding of what America was like during this time. This is EXACTLY the approach I was looking for and I was very pleased, indeed, by this volume. It is well-researched and well-written, and relates information I have had trouble finding elsewhere. I highly recommend it for a broad range of ages.
  
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• Posted on 2008-11-04
  A fast read, like an 8th grade social studies text
  
  This was a great read. I like how the author highlighted the social and the economic and the cultural changes that took place during these formative years in 20th century America. You read about the genius, yet uncompromising Henry Ford, who designed the Model T, and later the Model A, but failed in his bid to create a winning farm tractor (they kept tipping over backward).
  
  You will also read about the greed and the heavy loans that banks gave out that led to the 1929 stock market crash. But you will also read about FDR's tremendous reforms: The creation of Social Security, the SEC, the FDIC, the Agricultural Adjustment Act (which was later struck down by the Supreme Court, but reintroduced in a different incarnation based on taxes), TVA, and many others.
  
  I enjoyed reading about how American life changed with the advent of electric light in homes, which led people to read more. The chapters on marriage, divorce, and sexuality were also interesting.
  
  This is a great book about the roaring Twenties and the depressing Thirties.
  
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• Posted on 2008-10-31
  Learning from the first Great Depression (is GDII next?)
  
  If we don't learn from the past....
  
  This book is well-written: it is not a dry, plodding description of the Great Depression of the 30's and the decades before and after. The gaiety of the Roaring Twenties, Prohibition notwithstanding, is well-described, to the extent one can almost step into the post-WWI exhilaration. Only to be followed by financial disaster.
  
  Then the crash of the stock market, explained so that even I, a non-financial-investments person, can comprehend the cause and effects. The daily life, which was what I initially sought to understand, was thoroughly examined from the popular attendance of the new talkies to the government programs initiated to alleviate the dire circumstances of so many people.
  
  I recommend this book to anyone interested in learning from the past: a past that may resemble our future!
  
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