McElvaine Book Questions
Due 1/24
Name _______________________________
- Why
does the author spend so much time discussing the cycles and moods of
history? What does all this have to
do with the Great Depression?
- McElvaine walks the reader through the variety of
explanations given for the Great Depression and he says that
interpretations of these causes can be divided into some basic
categories—what are those categories and why does he say these are
problematic in understanding the Depression?
- Why
has Hoover been such a
convenient symbol of what went wrong in America
in the 1930s? Is it a fair
assessment of him?