{"product_id":"the-great-depression-a-diary-9781586489014","title":"The Great Depression: A Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Benjamin Roth\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - 20th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression-one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roth's depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to readers today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355660443799,"sku":"9781586489014","price":1217.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781586489014.webp?v=1769291613","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-great-depression-a-diary-9781586489014","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}