The Roaring Twenties, jazz music, Hollywood glamour - the end of
World War I ushered in a golden age for America, with a booming
stock market and rampant property speculation. It seemed as if -
with President Harding and then President Coolidge in charge - the
good times would never end. In marked contrast were the fortunes of
many European countries, which were struggling to repay war debts
while the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were plunging Germany
into economic catastrophe. Later, with Herbert Hoover as President,
the US markets continued to climb, even though some investors began
to sell, sensing trouble ahead. The stock market crash came in
October 1929, and America slid into deep depression. Against a
background of bank failures, industrial decline, rural poverty, and
unemployment, there was an outbreak of protests, strikes, and
riots. Hoover was swept from power in 1932, and it fell to the new
President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to revive America's fortunes with
a number of ground-breaking new programs which made up the New
Deal. Dark Realities covers this turbulent period in America's
history. The book introduces the key figures of this time period
and reveals the impact that the Great Depression had on the
American people. *** "Written to be accessible to lay readers and
historians alike....a straightforward chronicle of some of the
bleakest years in America's history. Dark Realities is an excellent
contribution....highly recommended especially for public and
college library collections." - Midwest Book Review, Library
Bookwatch, March 2013, American History Shelf
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