American Entrepreneur, Chapter 9: Deliverance and Despair, 1920-1939

Consumer goods, prosperity and problems of the 1920s, farming, rural banking crisis, the ôgreat crash,ö financial crisis worsens in the early 1930s, Smoot-Hawley tariff, HooverAÆs efforts to help the economy, development of the Depression, philosophy underlying the first months of the ôNew Deal,ö progress of the Depression, technology changes in communication (telephone, radio, motion pictures), business and the New Deal, permanent changes in government policy enacted from 1933 to 1937, effectiveness of the New Deal in curing the Depression. People discussed include Guglielmo Marconi, David Sarnoff, Charles Merrill, Charles Darrow, Joyce Hall, Andrew Mellon, James Lewis Kraft, and A.P. Giannini.