The Great Depression

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⁵ To see current data, see United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Latest Numbers," available online at: http://www.bls.gov

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⁸ William Young and Nancy Young, The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia, (Greenwood Publishing, 2007), 319-322, http://books.google.com/books?id=VBljswTLaIEC, accessed 29 January 2009.

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¹² Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

¹³ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 163; William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (Harper & Row, 1963), 1.

¹⁴ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 167.

¹⁵ Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

¹⁶ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 163.

¹⁷ William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (Harper & Row, 1963), 28.

¹⁸ William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (Harper & Row, 1963), 28.

¹⁹ William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (Harper & Row, 1963), 27.

²⁰ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 174.

²¹ For more on the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok, see Rodger Streitmatter, Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok (De Capo, 2000).

²² Lorena Hickok et. al., One Third Of A Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression (U. of Illinois, 1981), 67.

²³ Lorena Hickok et. al., One Third Of A Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression (U. of Illinois, 1981), 223.

²⁴ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 174.

²⁵ Michael Cooper, Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930s (Clarion, 2004), 8.

²⁶ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 223.

²⁷ Huey Long, "Share the Wealth," speech delivered 11 December 1934, Washington, DC, http://www.authentichistory.com/1930s/history/19341211_Huey_Long-Share_The_Wealth.html, accessed 6 January 2006.

²⁸ William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal ((Harper & Row, 1963), 99.

²⁹ William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal ((Harper & Row, 1963), 115.

³⁰ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 225.

³¹ "Charles E. Coughlin," Holocaust Encyclopedia, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 4 December 2008, http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005516, accessed 6 January 2009.

³² William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal ((Harper & Row, 1963), 28.

³³ William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal ((Harper & Row, 1963), 28.

³⁴ Larry DeWitt, "Research Note 17: The Townsend Plan's Pension Scheme," December 2001, Social Security Agency, Office of the Historian, Agency History: Research Notes and Special Studies by the Historian's Office, http://www.ssa.gov/history/townsendproblems.html, accessed 6 January 2009.

³⁵ "Share Our Wealth," Huey Long: The Man, His Mission, and Legacy, Long Legacy Project, 2006, http://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth.php, accessed 6 January 2009.

³⁶ Gary Scott Smith, Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush (Oxford, 2006), 206.

³⁷ William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal ((Harper & Row, 1963), 28.

³⁸ Lorena Hickok et. al., One Third Of A Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression (U. of Illinois, 1981), 223.

³⁹ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 174.

⁴⁰ Huey Long, "Share the Wealth," speech delivered 11 December 1934, Washington, DC, http://www.authentichistory.com/1930s/history/19341211_Huey_Long-Share_The_Wealth.html, accessed 6 January 2006.