Hard Times and New Deal in Kentucky: 1929-1939

The Great Depression and the New Deal touched the lives of almost every Kentuckian during the 1930s. Fifty years later the Commonwealth is still affected by the legacies of that era and the policies of the Roosevelt administration. George T. Blakey has written the first full study of this turbulent decade in Kentucky, and he offers a fresh perspective on the New Deal programs by viewing them from the local and state level rather than from Washington. Thousands of Kentuckians worked for New Deal

Author: George T. Blakey
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 271
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780813151281

About the Author

George T. Blakey is professor of history at Indiana University East.

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