《The Great Depression: A Diary》作者Benjamin Roth 是美國大蕭條時期的律師,他的兒子 Daniel B. Roth 和知名經濟編輯 James Ledbetter 共同整理並編輯了這本日記。A “compelling” (New York Times) and personal daily account of the experience of the Great Depression in the mid-west, full of anxieties about the economic future, with powerful echoes for today.時代背景:資本主義經濟史上蕞持久、蕞深刻、蕞嚴重的周期性世界經濟危機。首先爆發於美國,1929年10月24日紐約股票市場價格在一天之內下跌12.8%,大危機由此開始。緊接著就是銀行倒閉、生產下降、工廠破產、工人失業。大危機從美國迅速蔓延到整個歐洲和除蘇聯以外的全世界,是迄今為止人類社會遭遇的規模最大、歷時最長、影響蕞深刻的經濟危機在 1929 年的美國大蕭條時期,有一個人用日記記錄下了他的所見所聞,他的名字叫 Benjamin Roth。這本書不僅是一部歷史記錄,更是一本充滿智慧的生存指南。Roth 在日記中記錄了銀行倒閉、失業潮、物價飛漲等經濟危機的細節,同時也分享了他對經濟和社會的深刻思考。Roth 用簡潔而深刻的筆觸描繪了那個時代的經濟和社會動盪。他不僅是旁觀者,更是參與者,不僅記錄了痛苦,也記錄了希望,展現了普通人如何在絕望中尋找出路。 通過日記記錄了他對經濟危機的思考和應對策略。書中展現了普通人在經濟危機中的真實生活,以及他們如何在絕望中尋找希望。在當前全球經濟不穩定的背景下,這本書為我們提供了一個獨特的視角,幫助我們理解經濟危機的根源和應對方法。正如《紐約時報》所說:“Roth 的日記不僅記錄了歷史,更讓我們反思當下與過去的相似之處。” 這本書不僅是對歷史的回顧,更是對未來的警示和啟發。“經濟危機不是終點,而是新的起點。”——《The Great Depression: A Diary》the answer to, and wonder, as he did 70 years ago, whether the crisis is, indeed, over.”―The New York Times“[Roth’s] entries compellingly detail the everyday.”―Financial Times“Benjamin Roth has left us a vivid portrait of the Great Depression that is all the more powerful for the similarities and differences with the financial upheavals of today. Roth enables us -- in ways no historian can match -- to immerse ourselves in the sense of despair that Americans of that era felt and their hope that the economy would revive, long before it did. To read the diaries now is both enlightening and chilling.”―Charles R. Morris, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown“We imagine the Great Depression at two extremes--Franklin Roosevelt's jaunty smile and the haunting images of Dustbowl destitution. But in between were everyday middle class strivers like Benjamin Roth, trying to sort through the wreckage. FDR and the WPA may be long gone but the professional class remains, and the record of its struggle in the Depression has been thin until now. Roth's incisive diaries are more than a precious time capsule. They speak to our economic hopes and fears directly, and to the bewilderment of our own time."―Jonathan Alter, The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope“Here are brief, unsentimental, clear-eyed notes of the growing sense of hopelessness that came over Midwestern American life. This moving book is edited by [Roth’s] son Daniel.”―Spectator Business (UK)“A fascinating read, and strangely familiar.”―MoneySense“Roth’s diary is plainly written and professionally edited. It is a window on another age.”―The Seattle Times“There is an honest searching quality to his day-by-day accounts of banks closing, bread lines forming, friends failing. Striving to understand, he provides a remarkable and often engagingly literate discussion of the great Depression’s impact on people like him.”―Minneapolis Star-Tribune (寶藏英文書)