WILLIAM H. YOUNG is a freelance writer and independent scholar. He has recently retired from teaching English, American Studies, and popular culture at Lynchburg College in Virginia for 36 years. Young has published books and articles on various subjects of popular culture.

• Introduction Everyday America The World of Youth Advertising Architecture and Design Fashion Food and Drink Leisure Activities Literature Music Performing Arts Travel and Recreation Visual Arts Timeline, 1930-1939 Costs of Products Bibliography Index

"...[O]ffers a detailed and highly readable exposition of the decade's most prominent crazes and phenomena. They are interested on their own terms, and, perhaps even more importantly, well deserve to be studied closely and reflex to the Depression. Americans gladly turned to, among other things, papers, cartoons, radio, and movies in search of entertainment, minutes or hours of laughter, and optimism in times....Readers taking up this book can (re)discover these and many more interpretations and presentations of popular culture in the 1930s. If it may be put in the style of advertisers: those interested in the Depression years and populuar culture are well advised not to think about it tomorrow but to just do it." - H-Net Reviews

WILLIAM H. YOUNG is a freelance writer and independent scholar. He has recently retired from teaching English, American Studies, and popular culture at Lynchburg College in Virginia for 36 years. Young has published books and articles on various subjects of popular culture.

• Introduction Everyday America The World of Youth Advertising Architecture and Design Fashion Food and Drink Leisure Activities Literature Music Performing Arts Travel and Recreation Visual Arts Timeline, 1930-1939 Costs of Products Bibliography Index

"...[O]ffers a detailed and highly readable exposition of the decade's most prominent crazes and phenomena. They are interested on their own terms, and, perhaps even more importantly, well deserve to be studied closely and reflex to the Depression. Americans gladly turned to, among other things, papers, cartoons, radio, and movies in search of entertainment, minutes or hours of laughter, and optimism in times....Readers taking up this book can (re)discover these and many more interpretations and presentations of popular culture in the 1930s. If it may be put in the style of advertisers: those interested in the Depression years and populuar culture are well advised not to think about it tomorrow but to just do it." - H-Net Reviews

WILLIAM H. YOUNG is a freelance writer and independent scholar. He has recently retired from teaching English, American Studies, and popular culture at Lynchburg College in Virginia for 36 years. Young has published books and articles on various subjects of popular culture.

• Introduction Everyday America The World of Youth Advertising Architecture and Design Fashion Food and Drink Leisure Activities Literature Music Performing Arts Travel and Recreation Visual Arts Timeline, 1930-1939 Costs of Products Bibliography Index

"...[O]ffers a detailed and highly readable exposition of the decade's most prominent crazes and phenomena. They are interested on their own terms, and, perhaps even more importantly, well deserve to be studied closely and reflex to the Depression. Americans gladly turned to, among other things, papers, cartoons, radio, and movies in search of entertainment, minutes or hours of laughter, and optimism in times....Readers taking up this book can (re)discover these and many more interpretations and presentations of popular culture in the 1930s. If it may be put in the style of advertisers: those interested in the Depression years and populuar culture are well advised not to think about it tomorrow but to just do it." - H-Net Reviews