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Jackson Lears

Jackson Lears is editor of Raritan and author, most recently, of Rebirth of a Nation: the Making of Modern America, 1877-1920.

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Hard Times Revisited

Two new books show how the gap between the rich and the poor shaped the culture of the 1930s.

Jackson LearsNov 22, 2009
Cotton picker's child listening to an organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from 75 cents to 90 cents per hundred pounds, 1938. (Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress)

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon W.W. Norton, 536 pages, $35.00

Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein, W.W. Norton, 598 pages, $29.95