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050 00 $aF241$b.T47 1998
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100 1 $aThomas, Jerry Bruce,$d1941-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98020103
245 13 $aAn Appalachian New Deal :$bWest Virginia in the Great Depression /$cJerry Bruce Thomas.
260 $aLexington, Ky. :$bUniversity Press of Kentucky,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $ax, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aMap on lining papers.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-299) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tOn the Eve --$g2.$tDrought and Depression --$g3.$tA Search for Order --$g4.$tA "Jump in the Dark" --$g5.$tThe Blue Eagle --$g6.$tA Failed Experiment in Federal Relief --$g7.$tReshaping the Welfare System --$g8.$tThe New Deal and Mountain Agriculture --$g9.$tThe New Deal and Families in Distress --$g10.$tReluctant New Dealers --$tEpilogue. From Nearly Perfect to Almost Heaven.
520 $aThe Great Depression was well under way in West Virginia before the stock market crash of November 1929, and lasted until the coming of war in 1941. During this long decade the state faced some of the worst conditions in the country.
520 8 $aJerry Thomas demonstrates that the state's leaders - like their counterparts elsewhere - often ignored or only grudgingly accepted the programs and initiatives of the federal government. Ironically, Republican governor William Conley believed that increases in both state and federal relief spending were imperative, while his Democratic successors, Guy Kump and Homer Holt, saw the New Deal as threatening state interests.
520 8 $aThomas examines the efforts of various groups to organize against the disruptive aspects of the Depression, looking at the mixed results of New Deal policies in West Virginia within a national context. He provides comparative analysis of two models of local response to state and regional policy and discusses the impact of the New Deal and Depression on issues of family, gender, and race.
651 0 $aWest Virginia$xHistory$yTo 1950.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146231
651 0 $aWest Virginia$xPolitics and government.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146237
651 0 $aWest Virginia$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aWest Virginia$xEconomic conditions.
650 0 $aDepressions$y1929$zWest Virginia.
650 0 $aNew Deal, 1933-1939$zWest Virginia.
852 00 $bglx$hF241$i.T47 1998