The Banking Crisis of 1933

On March 6, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, less than forty-eight hours after becoming president, ordered the suspension of all banking facilities in the United States. How the nation had reached such a desperate situation and how it responded to the banking ""holiday"" are examined in this book, the first full-length study of the crisis. Although the 1920s had witnessed a wave of bank failures, the situation worsened after the 1929 stock market crash, and by the winter of 1932-1933, complete bankin

• | Author: Susan Estabrook Kennedy
• | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0813152917
• | ISBN-13: 9780813152912