Hard Times : An Oral History of the Great Depression

In these interviews, Studs Terkel recreates one of the most dramatic period in American history. It is a mosaic of memories from those who were richest to those who were the most destitute. Politicians like James Farley and Raymond Moley; businessmen like Bill Benton, Treasury Secretary Kennedy, and Clement Stone; a six-day bicycle racer; Sally Rand; artists and writers; racketeers; speakeasy operators, strikers, and impoverished farmers, people who were just kids and those who remember losing a fortune; all these lives form a rich and variegated panorama of this absorbing period.