by Susan Estabrook Kennedy (Author)
On March 6, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, less than forty-eight hours after becoming president, ordered the suspension of all banking facilities in the United States. How the nation had reached such a desperate situation and how it responded to the banking ""holiday"" are examined in this book, the first full-length study of the crisis. Although the 1920s had witnessed a wave of bank failures, the situation worsened after the 1929 stock market crash, and by the winter of 1932-1933, complete bankin
Author Biography
Susan Estabrook Kennedy is assistant professor of history at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Number of Pages: 280
Dimensions: 0.64 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: July 15, 2014
