Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America by Kasson, John F.
Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America by Kasson, John F.

Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America

Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII...
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Author: John F. Kasson
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Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America by Kasson, John F.

Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America

CHF 65.15
Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America by Kasson, John F.

Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America

CHF 65.15
Author: John F. Kasson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black laborer's cabin in South Carolina and young Andy Warhol's house in Pittsburgh to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's recreation room in Washington, DC, and gangster "Bumpy" Johnson's Harlem apartment. A few years later her smile cheered the secret bedchamber of Anne Frank in Amsterdam as young Anne hid from the Nazis.

For four consecutive years Shirley Temple was the world's box-office champion, a record never equaled. By early 1935 her mail was reported as four thousand letters a week, and hers was the second-most popular girl's name in the country.

What distinguished Shirley Temple from every other Hollywood star of the period--and everyone since--was how brilliantly she shone. Amid the deprivation and despair of the Great Depression, Shirley Temple radiated optimism and plucky good cheer that lifted the spirits of millions and shaped their collective character for generations to come. Distinguished cultural historian John F. Kasson shows how the most famous, adored, imitated, and commodified child in the world astonished movie goers, created a new international culture of celebrity, and revolutionized the role of children as consumers.

Tap-dancing across racial boundaries with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, foiling villains, and mending the hearts and troubles of the deserving, Shirley Temple personified the hopes and dreams of Americans. To do so, she worked virtually every day of her childhood, transforming her own family as well as the lives of her fans.



Author: John F. Kasson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/01/2014
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.63h x 6.19w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780393240795


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/2014 pg. 40
Library Journal 04/01/2014 pg. 93
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2014
Publishers Weekly 03/31/2014
Choice 11/01/2014 pg. 452
BookPage 05/01/2014

About the Author
Kasson, John F.: - John F. Kasson is a professor of history and American studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the author of Amusing the Million, among many other seminal works of cultural history. He lives in Chapel Hill.
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