This companion volume to the public television series delves into the events and impact of the Great Depression. The text is illustrated throughout with photos, documents, and posters, many previously unpublished.

The Great Depression: America in the 1930s

History

WATKINS, T.H.

Americas

Back Bay Books

A companion volume to the fall PBS series chronicles the devastation caused by the nation's most serious economic upheaval, offering parallels with America's present economic woes. By the author of Righteous Pilgrim. TV tie-in. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo.

Little,Brown & Co

Chronicles the devastation caused by the nation's most serious economic upheaval, offering parallels with America's present economic woes

Business & Money

Economics

The Redrock Chronicles: Saving Wild Utah (Center Books on Space, Place, and Time)

As a collection of geological and climatic phenomena, the earth is a scarred, bent, cracked, and agitated wreck of a place. Nowhere is this more evident than in Utah's redrock canyon country, which is among the most spectacular terrain not only in America but in the world. These extraordinary lands lie at the heart of the Colorado Plateau―130,000 square miles of uplifted rock sitting like a huge island in an earthly continental sea, surrounded on all sides by the remnants of once-active volcanoes. Although the Colorado Plateau includes portions of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, in no other part of any other state are its complexity and time-constructed beauty illuminated more brilliantly than in southern Utah. Tourists and outdoor enthusiasts by the millions visit and revisit the area because there is no place else on earth quite like it. 
In The Redrock Chronicles, T. H. Watkins, one of America's best-known and award-winning writers on the environment and history, focuses on southern Utah's unprotected lands in a loving testament to its warps and tangles of rock and sky. Combining history, geography, and photography, the author reports the full story of the region―from its violent geologic beginnings to the coming (and going) of pre-Puebloan peoples whose drawings still adorn rocks and caves there, from the Mormon settlement of the 1840s and 1850s to the great uranium boom of the 1950s, from the beginning of tourism and parkland protection in the 1930s to today's controversial movement to preserve millions of acres of wild Utah land in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Indeed, the account of that revolutionary movement is told here in all its color and complexity for the first time. 
Writing from his own personal experience and extensive research, an appreciative Watkins takes readers on a tour of the Grand Staircase of plateaus, moving from the utterly wild triangle of Kaiparowits Plateau, with its erosion-sculptured mesas, tablelands, benchlands, and canyons, to a more welcoming kind of verdant wilderness that sits northeast, across the rolling desert scrubland of Harris Wash, in the red-walled canyon of the Escalante River. The author has spent much time hiking and camping here among the isolated buttes and mesas, and he draws a vivid portrait of the area's highlights: Comb Ridge, a 90-mile wall of 600-foot cliffs; Waterpocket Fold, an even more spectacular monocline to the northeast of the Escalante River, stretching a hundred miles; the Henry Mountains; Hump of Bull Mountain; Cataract Canyon; and the San Rafael Swell, an enormous oval some 2,200 square miles which rises just north of Capitol Reef National Park. 
But The Redrock Chronicles is not simply a celebration. Watkins concludes with a spirited call for the preservation of the unprotected wilderness that gives the land its character and color. He offers the legislative device of wilderness designation as the necessary means of saving this plateau country that is not marked by one or two or even three or four scenic marvels but by an enormous kaleidoscope of geological diversity whose impact on the senses can set the mind to reeling with every turn.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Johns Hopkins University Press

Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952

Recounts the life of the longest-serving U.S. Interior Secretary, chronicling his role in the New Deal

Biographies & Memoirs

Henry Holt Co.

The acclaimed author of Righteous Pilgrim delivers this dramatic account of the Great Depression as seen by those who lived through it. Less concerned with the power brokers in Washington than with the daily struggles of ordinary people at the grass roots, The Hungry Years draws on little-known oral histories, memoirs, local press, and scholarly monographs to capture the voices of Americans in a time of unprecedented crisis. The result is narrative history at its best: a comprehensive single volume that traces the stages of the disaster chronologically without losing touch with the wounds it inflicted or the ways people responded. Humane and compassionate, historically sound, full of story and anecdote, The Hungry Years puts the reader at the very heart of the maelstrom that was the American Depression.

The Hungry Years: America in an Age of Crisis, 1929-1939

Henry Holt and Co.

A rare portrait of a politician who refused to stand for corruption shows how one New Dealer turned the scandal-ridden Department of the Interior into a powerful tool for preserving public lands. Reprint. PW. LJ. NYT.

Henry Holt Company

It was the worst of times and the best of times. It was an era of unprecedented crisis and a time of unprecedented courage. In a single, comprehensive volume, The Hungry Years tells the story of the Great Depression through the eyes of the people who lived it. Less concerned with the power brokers in Washington than with the daily struggles of ordinary people at the grassroots across America, it draws on little-known oral histories, memoirs, local press, and scholarly monographs to capture the voices of men and women in a time of extreme crisis. The result is a richly detailed narrative that traces the stages of the disaster chronologically without losing touch with the personal wounds it inflicted or the ways in which people responded.
Humane and compassionate, brilliantly researched, full of story and anecdote, The Hungry Years puts the reader at the very heart of the maelstrom that was the American depression.

The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America

Holt Paperbacks

Land No One Knows

Random House, Inc.

Describes the beauty of the California desert and the forces that threaten its delicate ecology

Time's Island: The California Desert

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Gibbs-Smith

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The Great Depression: America in the 1930s

The Great Depression: America in the 1930s

The Great Depression: America in the 1930s

The Redrock Chronicles: Saving Wild Utah (Center Books on Space, Place, and Time)

Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952

The Hungry Years: America in an Age of Crisis, 1929-1939

Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952

The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America

Land No One Knows

Time's Island: The California Desert