The 1930s : The Reality and the Promise.

Intro -- Contents -- 30 Faces of the 1930s -- Part I -- Culture and Crisis -- 1935 and the Fatal Illusions of Europe -- Latin America and Spain -- Part II -- 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 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 -- Breaking the Slump -- Greater New York -- Will Rogers -- Shirley Temple -- The Fedora -- The American Fashion Industry, 1930-1939 -- 1935 -- Part V -- 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 -- Whither America? -- 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 -- 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.

In 2010, Hofstra University celebrated its 75th anniversary, inviting scholars to the campus to discuss the world as it was in the year Hofstra was founded. The conference "1935: The Reality and the Promise" provided a wide-ranging exploration of the 1930s with presentations, discussions, and events highlighting the arts, entertainment, society, politics, literature, and science in that momentous decade. This volume encompasses a selection of the most interesting and enlightening papers from this conference, providing both depth and breadth of coverage. By any measure, the 1930s was a pivotal decade in modern history - a time when the reality of current events and the foreshadowing of events to come tempered all promise. The tension between reality and promise is a recurrent theme in the chapters brought together here, as well as in the personalities and faces that came to define this decade.

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