The Trouble I've Seen

by Martha Gellhorn

While those on the right maintained that the ‘losers’ and ‘chisellers’ were experiencing the natural consequences of their own moral collapse, and developing an unhealthy expectation of handouts, those on the left argued that the Depression was caused by the excessive, concentrated power of the elites, looking out for their own interests.

tone, the barely concealed fury at the injustice of man and fate towards the weak, the poor, the dispossessed.