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Since Yesterday begins in 1929, the year my mother was born and my father celebrated his first birthday. It spans the coming decade of the 30s along with the childhoods of my parents. The author details everything important in American's lives from the crash of the stock market in September 1929 to England's declaring war with Germany exactly 10 years later to the very day in 1939. While political moves and president's policies are explained in detail, the author is careful to never leave out the cultural aspects of the decade. From literature to music, to to stage drama to radio, to the beginning of photography as a popular hobby, to the change of popular music again, all the pieces of the 1930 decade puzzle is brilliantly laid out for the reader. I have come to a much better understanding of the world my parents lived in during their first 10 and 11 years of life. This understanding has also opened a Pandora's Box of questions I like to ask them, of how their individual and very different ethnic families survived The Depression and then The Recession of the 1930s. Unfortunately, I'll never learn the answers to those questions as my dad passed away last year and my mom is in skilled nursing care with a mind that no longer differentiates fantasy from reality. I was very sad when this book ended. I was left wanting to know more, not necessarily of the 1930s, but how the decade of the 1920s led up to it and how the decade of the 1940s contunued the saga and American life evolved and morphed. I have to add, when I bought Since Yesterday, I had an only minor interest in the "distant? past, but I got into the swing quickly and crave more. I will be looking to see if there are prequels and secquels to Since Yesterday.
As one born long after the Great Depression I've always wondered what it was really like. My mother used to point to a small building in a rural Ohio town near her teenage home that she said had been a bank when she was a teenager. It had failed during the Depression and she lost the only $20 to her name. Why would that have made her plant huge gardens and insist that we children flatten our toothpaste tubes with a toothbrush handle to get out the last tiny bit? Then, 2009 happened and I glimpsed some of what must have happened. This book ties together the cultural, financial, and political happenings of the era that our grandparents encountered yet which in many ways is reminiscent of our own era.
Wonderfully written book written in the 1930's about the 1930's. This is Lewis' follow up book to "Since Yesterday" which was a book about the 1920's written in the 1920's.
In both books he gives a clear view of what was happening at the time. There are many references to popular songs or artists that are obscure or forgotten people today but we're obviously the "bee's knees" in the 1930's.
It's refreshing to have a look at an important decade just as the decade is ending. Of course the author had no billing of what was about to happen in the 1940's so this book is a clear take on "current events" not a retrospective written 70 years later.
Highly recommend both books.
The book was written in 1939 so the data presented was vivid and current. The author gives views of different activities and trends as well as providing political insight.
After 75 years the view of actions in the 1930s has changed from the author's view but it was most interesting to read this book.
I lived the time of the book. I have learned many things I did not know or did not understand. For instance, I always believed Hoover did nothing to offset the depression. I also did not know Roosevelt had so much opposition. I remember how embarrassed my father was when he finally gave up and took a job with the WPA (which was often described as (We Piddle Around ). I can remember how excited I was when we got whole big blocks of cheese. They were so good. If you travel this country much you can still see evidences of work by WPA and CCC. We should think of this as our interstructure crumbles.
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