Volume 15, Number 3 · August 13, 1970
The Damned
By Murray Kempton
A Nation in Torment: The Great American Depression, 1929-1939
by Edward Robb Ellis
Coward-McCann, 571 pp., $10.00
Hard Times
by Studs Terkel
Pantheon, 450 pp., $8.95
The Block
by Herb Goro
Random House, 186 pp., $10.00
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
by Anita Bryant
Revell, 159 pp., $3.95
Of course. Billy Graham was first raised up when Charlotte tried to pray itself out of the Depression, God having so clearly looked down His nose at the world that he could choose for us even then the prophet who takes our minds off our national sins. If we begin to think of the Depression again, it is not so much because we fear its return as because we have begun to understand that our America was born then.
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