Our Depression : A Play in Nine Scenes

By Rethorst, O.W.

Book Id: WPLBN0003971985
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Title:	Our Depression : A Play in Nine Scenes
Author:	Rethorst, O.W.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Depressions
Collections:	Authors Community, History
Historic Publication Date:	2015
Publisher:	John Rethorst (orig. hardcover The Christopher Publishing House, 1936)

Member Page:	John Rethorst
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Description
The frustration, fear and search for answers to the economic disaster that was America's great depression. A common man's insight into why we do what we do.

Summary
Presented as a play for the stage, this is a nuanced and absorbing discussion of human nature and its role in why depressions occur. Although inspired by the American depression of the 1930s, many insights are relevant today. The volume also includes several poems, largely vignettes of the American Southwest, palpable in their authenticity as written by a colonel in the US Cavalry who fought in the Spanish-American war.

Table of Contents
Our Depression Scene I 9 Scene II 13 Scene III 23 Scene IV 31 Scene V 41 Scene VI 49 Scene VII 55 Scene VIII 62 Scene IX 69 Reflections in Verse Resonance Along the Rio Grande 75 Mary McCrea 78 The Demagogue 83 That’s Texas 85 Between the Colorado’s Canyon Walls 87