One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression

Beasley, Maurine H., Lowitt, Richard, Hickok, Lorena

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 by the eloquent photographs of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and others, of the shocking plight of millions of unemployed and dispossessed Americans.  

EAN

9780252010965

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published

1 May 1983

Pages

440