Charles Epting

New Deal in Orange County, California (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This historical tour explores how FDR's domestic programs helped revitalize a region devastated by natural disasters and the Great Depression. While many people are familiar with the New Deal's sweeping initiatives, few have a nuanced sense of what this "alphabet soup" of organizations actually did on a local level. In this fascinating book, historian Christopher Epting looks at the various New Deal projects undertaken in Orange County, showing how they met the myriad needs of its struggling communities. Unpredictably harsh elements wreaked havoc in Orange County during the Great Depression. The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 and the 1938 Santa Ana River flood took numerous lives, decimated buildings and destroyed much of the county's namesake citrus industry. In response, Orange County received federal public aid through the Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps and other agencies. Epting reveals their efforts in this tour of the buildings, bridges, harbors, trails, libraries, highways and other infrastructure gains-many still in use-that were revitalized by President Roosevelt's New Deal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781625850362
• Artikelnr.: 41061143

Autorenporträt

Born in Santa Monica and raised in Huntington Beach, California, Charles Epting is an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California. He is studying history, geology and environmental studies and for several years has been a volunteer at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, studying paleontology. He is the author of "University Park, Los Angeles."