Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939.
New York: Harper & Row, 1940.
New York: HarperCollins, 1986.
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(The dates in the book title refer to: (1) the peak of the 1920s stock market boom and thus to the beginning of the 1929 stock market crash and the following Depression; (2) the British declaration of war on Germany after Germany's invasion of Poland.)
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Author Information:
- Frederick Lewis Allen (1890–1954), Wikipedia.
- Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine (subscription required).
- Frederick Lewis Allen. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. New York: Harper & Row, 1931. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
[Publisher; Google Books; Hypertext version at University of Virginia, American Studies; Amazon.com.]
My post on Only Yesterday is here. - Frederick Lewis Allen. The Lords of Creation. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. Open Road Media, 2014.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Frederick Lewis Allen. The Great Pierpont Morgan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Open Road Media, 2016.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Frederick Lewis Allen. The Big Change: America Transforms Itself: 1900-1950. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1993. London: Routledge, 1993.
[Publisher, Routledge; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
My post on The Big Change is here.
Video: Lectures in History, C-SPAN
I collected links to videos on the 1930s in C-SPAN's "Lectures in History" series in my post for Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 (1992).
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Wikipedia Articles:
- Interwar period.
- History of the United States (1918–1945).
- 1930s.
- Economic history of the United States: From 1929 through World War II.
- Technological and industrial history of the United States. ~~~~~
- Presidency of Herbert Hoover, March 1929 - March 1933.
- United States presidential election, 1932, Roosevelt versus Hoover.
- Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 1933 - April 1945.
- United States presidential election, 1936, Roosevelt versus Landon. ~~~~~
- Wall Street Crash of 1929.
- Great Depression.
- Causes of the Great Depression.
- Great Depression in the United States.
- New Deal.
- Dust Bowl. ~~~~~
- List of years in literature: 1930s
- A novel mentioned several times by Allen, now obscure or even forgotten, but a bestseller during 1933 and 1934:
Anthony Adverse (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933) by Hervey Allen (1889–1949);
made into the film Anthony Adverse (1936).
[Amazon.com.] - Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1930s.
Some books referenced by Allen in Since Yesterday:
- Theodore G. Joslin. Hoover Off the Record. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934.
[Archive.org; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - William Starr Myers and Walter H. Newton. The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.
[Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd. Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company), 1982.
[Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Charles A. Beard and Mary Beard. America in Midpassage. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939.
[Google Books; Amazon.com; Amazon.com with slipcase.] - Raymond Moley. After Seven Years. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939.
[PDF at the Mises Institute; Google Books; Amazon.com.]