{"id":577,"date":"2019-01-14T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/?p=577"},"modified":"2019-01-14T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:26:00","slug":"wasnt-the-depression-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wasnt-the-depression-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasn&#8217;t the Depression Terrible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DepressionCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DepressionCover-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DepressionCover-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DepressionCover.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Issued in 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression, these cartoons (by Reuben Award winner Otto Soglow, creator of The Little King, working with David G. Plotkin) gives us an insider\u2019s view of that difficult time. Even the title is a sign of the moment; in 1932, the Republican Party tried to convince people that, no matter what they saw around them, the Depression was already in the past, putting \u201cWasn\u2019t the depression terrible?\u201d in big letters in newspaper ads and on billboards along commuter corridors in the northeast. (This failed to convince the Depression to go away.)<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Content note:<\/strong> This material includes common racial and social caricatures of its day, some of which will be considered inappropriate by modern audiences.<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Paperback:<\/b>\u00a0115 pages<\/li>\n<li><b>ISBN-10:<\/b>\u00a01949996050<\/li>\n<li><b>ISBN-13:<\/b>\u00a0978-1949996050<\/li>\n<li><b>Product dimensions:\u00a0<\/b>8.3 x 0.3 x 11.7 inches<\/li>\n<li><b>List price:\u00a0<\/b>$9.99<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_1810397\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wasnt-Depression-Terrible-Soglow\/dp\/1949996050\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=48b1c5b0604c79d7764763d1acc00d34&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"Wasn't the Depression Terrible?\" data-amzn-link-id=\"48b1c5b0604c79d7764763d1acc00d34\">Order now from Amazon!<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_1810397\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=48b1c5b0604c79d7764763d1acc00d34&amp;_cb=1547490302920\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issued in 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression, these cartoons (by Reuben Award winner Otto Soglow, creator of The Little King, working with David G. 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Even the title is a sign of the moment; in 1932, the Republican Party tried to convince people &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wasnt-the-depression-terrible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wasn&#8217;t the Depression Terrible?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1930s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutcomics.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}