The American Earthquake

A searing chronicle of the Great Depression, from the pen of one of America's most important literary and social critics. During a twelve-month period in 1930 and 1931, Edmund Wilson wrote a series of lengthy articles which he then collected in a book called American Jitters: A Year of the Slump. The resulting chronicle was hailed by the New York Times as "the best reporting that the period of depression has brought forth in the United States," and forms the heart of American Earthquake . In pro