Dancing in the dark
a cultural history of the Great Depression
by Morris Dickstein · 2009
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Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.
Social life and customsDepressionsIntellectual lifePopular cultureCivilizationHistoryPopular culture, united statesDepressions, 1929United states, civilization, 1918-1945United states, intellectual lifeUnited states, social life and customsUnited states, history, 1919-1933