Why historians no longer believe in the New Deal account of the ‘Dust Bowl’
Stephen Fender, 30 October 1997
Dust-bowl Migrants in the American Imagination
by Charles Shindo.
Kansas, 252 pp., £22.50, January 1997,0 7006 0810 9 Show More
by Charles Shindo.
Kansas, 252 pp., £22.50, January 1997,
In the Country of Country
by Nicholas Dawidoff.
Faber, 365 pp., £12.99, June 1997,0 571 19174 6 Show More
by Nicholas Dawidoff.
Faber, 365 pp., £12.99, June 1997,
“... of the Okies come to depart from the facts as historians have now begun to uncover them? As Charles Shindo sees it, the answer lies in the political mismatch between the migrants and those who tried to explain and publicise their predicament in an attempt to remedy it: that is, everyone from the managers of the Farm Security Administration camps to ... ”
