Bibliography and Suggested Reading 

Bright Dreams, Hard Times | The People | Bibliography

General:

Allen, Frederick Lewis. Since Yesterday: The Nineteen Thirties in America.

Biles, Roger. A New Deal for the American People.

Dean, Virgil, ed.  John Brown to Bob Dole:  Movers and Shakers in Kansas History.

Egan, Timothy.  The Worst Hard Time.

Federal Writers Project for the Works Projects Administration. The WPA Guide to 1930s Kansas.

Fink, Deborah.  Agrarian Women:  Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940.

Filler, Louis, ed. American Anxieties: A Collective Portrait of the 1930s.

Hickey, Donald R., Susan A. Wunder, and John R. Wunder.  Nebraska Moments,  New Edition.

Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear.

Lowitt, Richard.  The New Deal and the West.

Miner, Craig.  Next Year Country:  Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890-1940.

Napier, Rita, ed. Kansas and the West:  New Perspectives.

Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life.

Watkins, T.H. The Great Depression.

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Will Rogers:

Carter, Joseph and Larry Gaitlin. The Quotable Rogers.

Rogers, Will. Will Rogers Says…Favorite Quotations.

Ross, Steven J. Movies and American Society.

Rourke, Constance and Greil Marcus. American Humor: A Study of the National Character.

Yagoda, Ben. Will Rogers: A Biography.

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FDR:

Alter, Jonathon. The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days

Cashman, Sean. America in the Twenties and Thirties: The Olympian Age of FDR.

Dimitri, Carolyn, Anne Effland, and Neilson Conklin. “The 20th Century…”

Friedel, Frank. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny.

Hamby, Alonzo L. For the Survival of Democracy: FDR and the World Crisis of the 1930s.

Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal.

McJimsey, George. The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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Huey Long:

Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Charles Coughlin & the Great Depression.

Kane, Thomas. Louisiana Hayride: The American Rehearsal for Dictatorship.

Long, Huey P. Everyman a King: The Autobiography of Huey Long.

Williams, T. Harry. Huey Long.

Religions, 3 vols. White, Richard D. Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long.

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Aimee Semple McPherson:

Aiken, Katherine G. “Sister Aimee Semple McPherson and the Interwar West.”

Bahr, Robert. Least of All Saints.

Epstein, Daniel. Sister Aimee.

Lawless, Elaine J. God’s Peculiar People.

Melton, Gordon J., ed. The Encyclopedia of American Religions.

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Zora Neale Hurston:

Lookingbill, Brad. “‘A God-forsaken Place’: Folk Eschatology and the Dust Bowl.”

Gates, Henry Louis and Cornel West. The African-American Century.

Hemenway, Robert. Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography.

Hurston, Zora Neale. I Love Myself When I am Laughing.

Kaplan, Carla, ed. Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters.

Watkins, T.H. The Great Depression.

Woods, Cheryl, ed. Hurston: Folklore Memoirs and Other Works.

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