Book Excerpt: “Dancing in the Dark” Morris Dickstein’s cultural history of the Great Depression
Sep 12th, 2009 | By Collective | Category: Community Board, Health, Written Word
The first of three selected passages from author Morris Dickstein’s cultural history of the Great Depression.
By: Morris Dickstein | Posted: August 31, 2009 at 6:41 AM Source: ROOTS
“There is something about poverty that smells like death,” Zora Neale Hurston wrote in her 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. “Dead dreams dropping off the heart [...]