Contents -- Part VI - Harvests of Wrath: Literature -- Foreword - 30 Faces of the 1930s -- Part I - The 1930s in Context -- Culture and Crisis -- 1935 and the Fatal Illusions of Europe -- Latin America and Spain -- Part II - The Roosevelt Revolution -- FDR and U.S. Foreign Policy -- "Dear Mr. President" -- Inside FDR's Cabinet -- Love and Sacrifice -- The New Deal's Educational Initiatives During the Great Depression -- Part III - Race, Politics, and Ideologies -- Race and Ethnic Issues in Sports circa 1935 -- The Seeds of Racial Equality -- Fascism and Italian Americans -- "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism" -- Democracy, Fascism and Patriotism -- Part IV - American Popular Culture -- Breaking the Slump -- Greater New York -- Will Rogers -- Shirley Temple -- The Fedora -- The American Fashion Industry, 1930-1939 -- 1935 -- Part V - Harvests of Wrath: Art, Music, and Film -- Making Murals Modern -- The Construction of Modernity and "Modernism" in New York City -- Experimental Philanthropies and the Negro Theatre -- New York in the 1930s -- "Miserable With You" -- How Comics Helped Save America -- WPA Posters in Perspective -- The Art Culture of the New Deal in San Francisco -- Part VI - Harvests of Wrath -- Whither America? Popular Novelists in Search of a National Identity -- Hemingway's Thirties -- Social Anxieties in 1930s Detective Fiction -- Muriel Rukeyser and Margaret Walker -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Lost Decade" -- Take Dos Passos Off the Shelf -- Part VII - Inventing the Future -- Physics in the United States During the 1930s -- Transforming American Aviation -- Envisioning Supersonic Flight -- Computers in the 1930s -- First Houses and the Struggle for Public Housing in New York -- When All Curriculum Was Social Studies Curriculum -- Contributors.