@article{717775,
      recid = {717775},
      author = {Kasson, John F.,},
      title = {The little girl who fought the Great Depression : Shirley  Temple and 1930s America /},
      pages = {308 pages :},
      abstract = {Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements  roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII  as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait  brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black  laborer's cabin in South Carolina to FBI Director J. Edgar  Hoover's recreation room in Washington, DC. A few years  later her smile cheered the secret bedchamber of Anne Frank  in Amsterdam. For four consecutive years Shirley Temple was  the world's box-office champion, a record never equaled.  Amid the deprivation and despair of the Great Depression,  Shirley Temple radiated optimism and plucky good cheer that  lifted the spirits of millions and shaped their collective  character for generations to come. Distinguished cultural  historian John F. Kasson shows how the most famous, adored,  imitated, and commodified child in the world astonished  movie goers, created a new international culture of  celebrity, and revolutionized the role of children as  consumers. To do so, she worked virtually every day of her  childhood, transforming her own family as well as the lives  of her fans.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/717775},
}