One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression by Lorena Hickok, Richard Lowitt, Maurine H. Beasley

One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression

Lorena Hickok, Richard Lowitt, Maurine H. Beasley

440 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

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Between 1933 and 1935, Lorena Hickok traveled across thirty-two states as a "confidential investigator" for Harry Hopkins, head of FDR's Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Her assignment was to gather information about the day-to-day toll th...

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