Name: Children of the Great Depression
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9780618446308

Russell Freedman

Through memoirs, diaries, letters, and other firsthand accounts, illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression, including middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, and others.

Children of the Great Depression

Jeni Enjaian

My review should reflect the fact that I read this book immediately after reading Freedman's book on Lewis Hines and his stunning photography of the child labor of the early 1900s. That book is an absolute knockout.
Once again, Freedman's prose works hand in hand with the stunning photographs taken by photographers as part of the FSA. Without directly alluding to them, Freedman uses them as intricate parts of his narrative, a narrative that would not be complete without them. The part that felt a little off to me, likely because of what I head read just prior, was the final few chapters on entertainment and other things available to all children of the Great Depression. In my mind, it did not seem to fit, only because I had read so much about the suffering of these children in the two books.

Children of the Great Depression

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