Martha was the youngest of sixteen, handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White House. From these pages, we understand the real cost of sudden destitution on a vast scale. We taste the dust in the mouth, smell the disease and feel the hopelessness and the despair. And here, too, we can hear the earliest cadences of a writer who went on to become, arguably, the greatest female war reporter of the 20th century.
- ISBN13 9781906011628
- Publish Date 10 September 2012 (first published 18 May 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Eland Publishing Ltd
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 244
- Language English