The Great Depression of the 1930s was the worst financial disaster ever to strike the United States. This book explains the events, economic practices,and social attitudes that helped bring about the Stock Market Crash of October 29, 1929, it describes in vivid detail what life was like for Americansduring the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl Days, and it also outlines the legacy of the Great Depression–how it affected those who lived through it and those generations that have followed.