Hard Times

Richard Striner is professor of history at Washington College and the author of Woodrow Wilson and World War I: A Burden too Great to Bear (2014) and Lincoln’s Way: How Six Great Presidents Created American Power (2010), a History Book Club selection, as well as Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery (2006).

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1: Hard Times from Colonial to Postrevolutionary America
Chapter 2: Hard Times and the Financial Panics of 1819 and 1837
Chapter 3: The Panics of 1873 and 1893–And Hard Times in Between
Chapter 4: Depressions and Policy Disputes in America, Circa 1720–1928
Chapter 5: The Onset of the Great Depression
Chapter 6: The Early New Deal and the Depression
Chapter 7: 1934–A Year of Fear and Rage in America
Chapter 8: The Politics of Class Conflict During 1935 and 1936
Chapter 9: Recovery and Recession, 1937–1939
Chapter 10: The Great Depression and American Culture in the 1930s
Chapter 11: How the Great Depression Ended: The Keynesian School of Thought
Chapter 12: The Revolt Against Keynes
Chapter 13: The Great Recession

A Note on Sources
Index
About the Author