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The Great Depression
One of the most critical economic periods in the United States history was the Great Depression. A majority of the U.S. citizens did not know much about the Depression. The only information that they knew was what they read from textbooks. Many citizens never really had to face the hardship like others were forced to face. Growing Up by Russell Baker is an autobiography on the problems he and his family endured during this era.
Received his second Pulizer Prize in 1983 for his autobiography Growing up Regarded as one of America's leading wordsmiths and humorists
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Work ethic during the Great Depression
work ethic—a feeling that one should be ashamed not to be doing one's best and working one's hardest—was an important foundation stone for the pre-Depression order. It is the
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Misery and personal sufferings were widespread.
Living conditions changed when multiple families crowded into small houses or apartments. Unemployment rate was very high. Thousands went hungry. Children suffered long term effects from a poor diet and inadequate medical care. Women continued to doing women’s work such as nursing, and even if they were able to get an industry job which seldom hired women, they usually were paid less than men.
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The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved. An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious—just dead wrong.
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Born in Virginia in 1925
In charge of "The Observer" column for the New York Times from 1962 to 1998.
Authrst Pulizer prize in 1979 for distinguished commentary as a columnist
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mother of seven children!
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This book traces his youth in the mountains of rural Virginia. When Baker was only five, his father died. His mother, strong-willed and matriarchal, never looked back. These were depression years, and Mrs. Baker moved her family to Baltimore. Baker's mother was determined her children would succeed, and her unfailing faith in the talents of her young son was not misplaced. He did everything from delivering papers to hustling subscriptions for the Saturday Evening Post. As is often the case, early hardships make the man.
Poor Russell Almanac
(The text is extracted from the first chapter of Growing Up.)
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Causes of the Great Expression: