{"product_id":"the-great-depression-a-diary-paperback","title":"The Great Depression: A Diary - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression-one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roth's depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to readers today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48712687223001,"sku":"9781586489014","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/3121\/5065\/files\/9781586489014.jpg?v=1778869691","url":"https:\/\/www.blacknectarbooks.com\/products\/the-great-depression-a-diary-paperback","provider":"blacknectar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}