Cover of Dancing in the dark

Dancing in the dark

a cultural history of the Great Depression

by Morris Dickstein

2009 598 pages eng

Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.

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