The Great Depression: A Captivating Guide to the Worldwide Economic Depression That Began in the United States, Including the Wall Street Crash, FDR's New Deal, Hitler’s Rise and More

By: Captivating History

Narrated by: Desmond Manny

Did you know that the unemployment rate between 1933 and 1934 was one in four people?

The stock market crash of 1929 didn’t cause the Great Depression by itself, but it is a powerful symbolic starting point to the greatest economic disaster of the 20th century. On that dark day in October 1929, fortunes were lost, and fear of financial insecurity rose throughout the United States and the world. In 1932, the low point of the Depression, as much as a third of Americans were out of work, and even more people were unemployed in other countries. The stock market reached its lowest point ever and wouldn’t rise to its pre-Depression levels for almost 20 years.

The scale of the crisis demanded new ways of coping and new ideas about the role of government. The ideas that had dominated American thought about the relationship between the economy and government were now viewed to be outdated at best, dangerous at worst.

This captivating history audiobook aims to give you a better understanding of a period that contains many tragic stories yet powerful lessons.

In The Great Depression: A Captivating Guide to the Worldwide Economic Depression That Began in the United States, Including the Wall Street Crash, FDR's New Deal, Hitler’s Rise and More, you will discover topics such as:

• Causes of the Great Depression 1918-1929
• Herbert Hoover and the Early Years of the Depression
• The Election of 1932
• The 100 Days and FDR’s First Term, 1933-1937
• FDR’s Second Term - Challenges and Critics
• Sports and the Great Depression
• The Outlaw Celebrity in the Great Depression
• Population Shifts and the Culture of the Great Depression
• International Issues and Concerns During the Depression
• The Coming Storm and the End of the Depression
• And much, much more!

So listen to this audiobook now if you want to learn more about the Great Depression!

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would recommend, quick one.

I enjoyed this book tons. It set me down a bunch of different paths to research. also, it was very quick to listen to.

Great Depression

Could be very beneficial for all Americans to expand on passed their compulsory understandings and moral Bias. It is slightly biased against FDR, but, it is mostly true. FDR was a supersalesman - promoter and always had the masses on his team.

detailed explanations

This book provides amazing insight into the Great Depression. I didn't really how many days today parallels there are (and aren't) to today's Great Recession.

TERRIFIC BOOK

Finally a real insight into the true events surrounding the Great Depression. Always felt the information in the School was incorrect. This book shines a light into what events really triggered the depression and what eventually got us out.

Teaches you the truth

Facts that were known by the participants themselves in this historical context, but for a variety of reasons, overshadowed by politics. A must-BOOK for any serious history student to see where we've been, and to possibly gain a better understanding of where America is headed economically in the 21st Century.

Clear concepts

I love the presentation of this audiobook. Well written, facts backed up, made clear about what really happened. I especially liked how the author clearly tied.

Comprehensive and GREAT summary

What I enjoyed most about this audiobook - which covered a period of history of which I have read many books - both economic and military - is that it did not pin the cause of the Great Depression on just one or two events, but rather showed the multiplicity of events that aggregated together created the Great Depression. This included the bank runs of the 1920s, the agricultural depression of the 1920s, the social influences as well as the financial speculations.

In general, if I could summarize all the books I’ve read into one short book report – this is what I would have written.

Finally the voice narration was enjoyable and relaxing.

If you haven’t read much about the 1920s and 1930s through the end of World War II, this book would be a great overview and introduction that could stimulate thoughts and interests for research in greater details on a variety of different topics.

I currently have over 700 book titles in my Audible library and while very simple, this is perhaps in the top 10 of my favorite Audible books for the simple reason that it provided many different storylines woven together into one big story without ever getting caught in the minutia of boring details.

Really appreciated it

I didn't know FDR set prices by essentially drawing numbers out of a hat, but he did. He played games with people's lives, was reckless, feckless, used power wrongly, experimented without consideration for people's lives, and massively prolonged the depression.FDR certainly should go down in history as the first to purposely shred our Constitution.

necessary information

The wild west, the great depression-recession, the civil war, ext, are all areas of knowledge that One of the things this book does well, is boiling the data down to undeniable facts that prove that the answer to the negative effects of a government manipulated market, is not more government manipulation, but the voluntary forces of liquidation and reinvestment of capital towards economically viable and necessary areas.

well done

Great analysis on a point in history where many people are misinformed. This book tells you what happened and how.