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Dancing in the dark

a cultural history of the Great Depression

by Morris Dickstein

Social life and customsDepressionsIntellectual lifePopular cultureCivilizationHistoryPopular culture, united statesDepressions, 1929

Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.

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Book data: Open Library