One Third of a Nation Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression |
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| Author:
| Hickok, Lorena
Lowitt, Richard
Beasley, Maurine H. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-01096-5 |
| Publication Date: | May 1983 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $38.00 |
Book Description:
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Between 1933 and 1935, Lorena Hickok traveled across thirty-two states as a ''confidential investigator'' for Harry Hopkins, head of FDR's Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Her assignment was to gather information about the day-to-day toll the Depression was exacting on individual citizens. One Third of a Nation is her record, underscored ......
Between 1933 and 1935, Lorena Hickok traveled across thirty-two states as a ''confidential investigator'' for Harry Hopkins, head of FDR's Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Her assignment was to gather information about the day-to-day toll the Depression was exacting on individual citizens. One Third of a Nation is her record, underscored ......