We Had Everything But Money: Love and Sharing Saw America's Families Through the Great Depression--These Are the Memories of Those Who Lived Through It

PRICELESS MEMORIES AND BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION..FROM STRONG PEOPLE WHO TELL IN THEIR OWN WORDS WHAT IT WAS LIKE WHEN BANKS CLOSED AND HEARTS OPENED!/THIS BOOK IS THE CHRONICLE OF A REMARKABLE ERA IN OUR HISTORY-THE GREAT DEPRESSION. IT ALSO IS THE STORY OF A REMARKABLE GENERATION OF PEOPLE BORN JUST ABOUT THE TIME THE 20TH CENTURY BEGAN, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE PRESIDENTS OF MCKINLEY AND TEDDY ROOSEVELT. WE ARE THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS, GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. MUCH OF WHO AND WHAT WE ARE WAS SHAPED BY THEM. IT WAS THEIR FATE TO BE AFFLICTED BY WARS, PLAGUES, FAMINES, EPIDEMICS, DROUGHTS AND FLOODS OF NEAR-OLD TESTAMENT PROPORTIONS. YET THEY DID MUCH MORE THAN SURVIVE. THESE ANCESTORS OF OURS STUBBORNLY AND BRAVELY ENDURED, SUSTAINED BY THEIR BIBLES, THEIR PATRIOTISM AND THEIR DETERMINATION THAT THINGS COULD BE MADE BETTER THAN THEY WERE./SUPERB BOOK WITH AMAZING PICTURES WOULD MAKE A GREAT GIFT.