This Fabulous Century: 1930-1940

More than 350 vintage photos, cartoons, and posters recapture the look and special flavor of America in the 1930s. A lively narrative accompanies the pictures, divided into such topics as: journey through the lean years; great radio programs; the hungry years; dream factory: Little Orphan Annie, Flash Gordon, Jack Armstrong, Tarzan, Tom Mix, Buck Rogers, Dick Tracy, and Shirley Temple; the daredevil crooks and the hero cop; F.D.R., ³that man in the White House²; cafe society; the worker finds a voice; the hard grip of steel; the movies; Nazis; Governor Huey Long; Father Coughlin; big band, swinging dance, and jive talk; and the 1939 NewYork World¹s Fair.Ezra Bowen (ed) is the author of 'This Fabulous Century: 1930-1940', published 1987 under ISBN 9780788194429 and ISBN 0788194429.