GARY DEAN BEST is Professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He is the author of The Politics of American Individualism (Greenwood, 1975), To Free A People (Greenwood, 1982), Herbert Hoover: The Postpresidential Years (2 volumes, 1983), Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Roosevelt versus Recovery 1993-1938 (Praeger, 1992), FDR and the Bonus Marchers, 1933-1935 (Praeger, 1992), and The Critical Press and the New Deal: The Press versus Presidential Power, 1933-1938 (Praeger, 1993), as well as numerous essays in scholarly books and journals. He has held fellowships from the American Historical Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Fulbright Scholar in Japan from 1974 to 1975.

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GARY DEAN BEST is Professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He is the author of The Politics of American Individualism (Greenwood, 1975), To Free A People (Greenwood, 1982), Herbert Hoover: The Postpresidential Years (2 volumes, 1983), Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Roosevelt versus Recovery 1993-1938 (Praeger, 1992), FDR and the Bonus Marchers, 1933-1935 (Praeger, 1992), and The Critical Press and the New Deal: The Press versus Presidential Power, 1933-1938 (Praeger, 1993), as well as numerous essays in scholarly books and journals. He has held fellowships from the American Historical Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Fulbright Scholar in Japan from 1974 to 1975.

• Introduction The Setting Fads and Crazes Comics and Popular Literature Newspapers and Radio Music, Movies, and the Arts Sports Style and Life Coping Conclusion Notes Bibliography