One Third of a Nation

One Third of a Nation
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : 0252010965
ISBN-13 : 9780252010965
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Book Synopsis One Third of a Nation by : Lorena A. Hickok

Download or read book One Third of a Nation written by Lorena A. Hickok and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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