Title: Don't be fooled by the subtitle!
Review: .When I saw this book and read the dustjacket notes I assumed it would be what the title suggested: a "narrative" history of the Great Depression, told primarily through the experiences of persons who lived through it.I was sorely disappointed.Make no mistake -- the book contains a wealth of well-researched data quite valuable to the study of the depression, but written like a college text, with appropriate footnotes, instead of as a literary exercise such as David McCullough's TRUMAN.Nothing wrong with that, but the book should be marketed and reviewed as an academic effort rather than as a "narrative history."
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