Down & out in the Great Depression [electronic resource] : letters from the forgotten man / edited by Robert S. McElvaine ; with a new foreword by the editor.

Reactions to Hoover and economic breakdown
Proud but frightened: Middle-class hardship
The grass roots: Rural depression
A worse depression: Black Americans in the 1930's
To be old, sick, poor
The forgotten children
Attitudes toward relief
The conservative
The desperate
THe Cynical
The rebellious
The unconvinced
"Our Savior".