Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.
Start by marking “One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression” as Want to Read:
One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression
by
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 o
...more
Paperback, 440 pages
Published
May 1st 1983
by University of Illinois Press
(first published April 1st 1981)
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
Reader Q&A
To ask other readers questions about
One Third of a Nation,
please sign up.
Be the first to ask a question about One Third of a Nation
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
Showing 1-37
Start your review of One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression
Oct 06, 2014
Susan Albert
rated it
it was amazing
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
roosevelt-research,
social-history
I read this to get a sense of Lorena Hickok as an observer, a writer, a social commentator--and came away with a clearer understanding of her as a person. A lively, conversational, often passionate review of the New Deal as it played out in communities across the country, enhanced with an excellent introduction and notes. If you want to know what the Depression was really like, read this. It's too bad that Hickok was discouraged from publishing this material during her lifetime.
...more
While there's quite a bit of repetition, natural since so many people were in the same situation, the information collected by Hickok gives a thorough, and devastating view of the Great Depression's effect on the citizens of the United States. It left me wondering how many more would have died if it weren't for the government's sometimes flawed role in aiding its people, and what it says about so many now who reject that role.
...more
Candid and raw view of the depression.
Interesting! Her racial views are a bit...1930s, but it's amazing how we're still having the same arguments and facing some of the same problems today.
...more
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
5 users
Related Articles
The last five years of world history have been nothing if not...eventful. When living in interesting times, there's nothing better for...
90 likes · 18 comments
No trivia or quizzes yet. Add some now »
