The American Earthquake: A Documentary Of The Jazz Age, The Great Depression, And The New Deal
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — corners are chipped and the top edge of the dust jacket shows significant wear and tearing. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: name penned on fep. Binding: Appears intact.
The American Earthquake is a landmark work of American social and cultural reportage, in which Edmund Wilson — one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary and cultural critics — chronicles the seismic upheavals that reshaped the United States from the roaring prosperity of the Jazz Age through the devastation of the Great Depression and into the reforming ambitions of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Compiled from Wilson's journalism and essays written during the 1920s and 1930s, the book presents a vivid, on-the-ground documentary of breadlines, labour conflicts, political ferment, and the desperate ingenuity of ordinary Americans caught in extraordinary times. Written with the sharp eye of a seasoned journalist and the analytical depth of a gifted intellectual, Wilson illustrates how economic catastrophe tore at the fabric of American society while simultaneously giving rise to new political possibilities. Authoritative, urgent, and beautifully observed, this collection stands as an indispensable primary record of a nation in crisis and transformation.
Author: Edmund Wilson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, W.H. Allen, London
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — corners are chipped and the top edge of the dust jacket shows significant wear and tearing. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: name penned on fep. Binding: Appears intact.
The American Earthquake is a landmark work of American social and cultural reportage, in which Edmund Wilson — one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary and cultural critics — chronicles the seismic upheavals that reshaped the United States from the roaring prosperity of the Jazz Age through the devastation of the Great Depression and into the reforming ambitions of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Compiled from Wilson's journalism and essays written during the 1920s and 1930s, the book presents a vivid, on-the-ground documentary of breadlines, labour conflicts, political ferment, and the desperate ingenuity of ordinary Americans caught in extraordinary times. Written with the sharp eye of a seasoned journalist and the analytical depth of a gifted intellectual, Wilson illustrates how economic catastrophe tore at the fabric of American society while simultaneously giving rise to new political possibilities. Authoritative, urgent, and beautifully observed, this collection stands as an indispensable primary record of a nation in crisis and transformation.