One Third of a Nation

Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression

• Author(s): Lorena A. Hickok,
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Pages: 378
• ISBN_10: 0252010965
  ISBN_13: 9780252010965
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Economic Conditions , Business & Economics / Economic History , History / General , History / United States / General , History / United States / 20th Century , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

Description:... 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.