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Author:

Lindenmeyer, Kriste, 1955-

Title:

The greatest generation grows up : American childhood in the 1930s / Kriste Lindenmeyer.

Publisher:

Ivan R. Dee,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

304 p.

Subject:

Children--United States--Social conditions--20th century.
Teenagers--United States--Social conditions--20th century.
Family--United States--History--20th century.
Depressions--1929--United States.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Teenagers--United States--Biography.
Children--United States--Biography.
United States--Social conditions--1918-1932.
United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.
United States--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Stable and fragile families in hard times -- Work, if you could find it -- Transient youth : on the road to nowhere -- The importance of being educated -- Players and consumers in popular culture -- Uncle Sam's children -- Modern childhood and the New Deal generation.

ISBN:

9781566636605 (cloth : alk. paper)
1566636604 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005017643

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)

RUPC135 -- Manson Public Library (Manson) — 973.91 Li

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)