The Great Depression: A Diary
The Great Depression as it looked day by day to a small-town lawyer who did not know how it would end.
The diary of Benjamin Roth, a lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio, who recorded daily life and his reflections on the economy from 1931 to 1941. Edited by his son Daniel B. Roth and the journalist James Ledbetter, it shows the Depression as ordinary middle-class people lived through it, from bank failures to lost savings.
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Morgan Housel
The Great Depression: A Diary is the best economics book I’ve read, written by a person who didn’t know he was writing one.
Article · May 2017
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