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    'Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression' by Morris Dickstein

    Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:23:45

    John Steinbeck, Frank Capra, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Woody Guthrie


    'Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression' by Morris Dickstein

    Morris Dickstein's "Dancing in the Dark" is not exactly the syncretic "Cultural History of the Great Depression" that its subtitle promises -- at best, the book treats inferentially the broad political and social trends of that desperate, crucial era. ...Full Story at Los Angeles Times »

    Tags: John Steinbeck, Frank Capra, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Woody Guthrie, Leni Riefenstahl, F. Scott Fitzgerald