Great Depression History Memoirs

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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 507 ratings
    • The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle....

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    • FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
    • By: Jonathan Alter
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,120 ratings
    • Instead of becoming the dictator so many wanted in those first days, FDR rescued banks, put men to work immediately....

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    • Memoir of the 1930s Great Depression
    • By: Clement T. "Bud" Mertens
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A first-hand account of farm life in the 1930s As a teenager during the Great Depression, Bud faces many hardships and family tragedies. With only ...

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    • By: Tom Brokaw
    • Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
    • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 899 ratings
    • In this superb audiobook, Tom Brokaw goes out into America to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation...

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    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
    • Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The Great Depression was one of the most trying eras in American history. All aspects of the US were affected. After the stock market crash of 1929, the nation was thrust into a decade of turmoil and change - in government, the economy, and culture....

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    • How to Prosper in the Crash That Follows the Greatest Boom in History
    • By: Harry S. Dent
    • Narrated by: Harry S. Dent
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of The Roaring 2000s guides listeners through the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression....

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    • Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 39 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,333 ratings
    • No Ordinary Time describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt....

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    • The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
    • By: Susan Quinn
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 593 ratings
    • A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives....

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    • Winners and Losers in a Post-Pandemic World
    • By: James Rickards
    • Narrated by: James Rickards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,237 ratings
    • The man who predicted the worst economic crisis in US history shows you how to survive it....

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    • How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
    • By: Jim Powell
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 504 ratings
    • Think FDR was a great president? Think again....

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    • The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake
    • By: Brian Hicks
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 223 ratings
    • Brian Hicks tells the explosive story of the Morro Castle &3150; the elegant luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Eric Rauchway
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures....

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    • An Enthralling Guide to the Worst Economic Downturn in the History of the Industrialized World (Historical Periods)
    • By: Billy Wellman
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Take a journey through one of America’s toughest times, the Great Depression. This audiobook dives into the daily lives of people who faced job loss, poverty, and homelessness with incredible bravery.

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    • An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression
    • By: Ben Montgomery
    • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. After months of struggling, Plennie decided it was time to do something extraordinary. He decided to walk around the world - backward.

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    • By: Craig Nelson
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 15 hrs
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR won the support of a nation antagonistic to war in Europe and pushed both government and industry to build “the arsenal of democracy”—the secret weapon that won the war.

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    • Volume II, The Defining Years, 1933-1938
    • By: Blanche Wiesen Cook
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Series: Eleanor Roosevelt, Book 2
    • Length: 28 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Cook takes listeners through the tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II - the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges....

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    • The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
    • By: Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, Henry M. Paulson Jr.
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis - from why it happened to where we are now....

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    • A Short History
    • By: Doug West
    • Narrated by: Gregory Diehl
    • Length: 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • There are many theories as to why the United States and then much of the world entered into a long period of price deflation, high unemployment, and an overall significant economic downturn....

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