The Great Depression generally conjures up images of black and white photographs from a forgotten time. We know it was a dark era in the life of America and its citizens, but we don’t feel the immediate desperation that absorbed the country so completely such as stockbrokers committing suicide and Americans starving. This striking volume presents newspaper and magazine articles, speeches, radio addresses, and other primary source writings, along with the reporting of John Steinbeck, to fully capture the devastating impact the Depression had on America.