The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
by Kasson, John F
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393240797
- ISBN 13
- 9780393240795
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About This Item
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2014. 308 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "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 to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's recreation room in Washington, DC. A few years later her smile cheered the secret bedchamber of Anne Frank in Amsterdam. For four consecutive years Shirley Temple was the world's box-office champion, a record never equaled. 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. To do so, she worked virtually every day of her childhood, transforming her own family as well as the lives of her fans." - Publisher. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.
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- Title
- The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
- Author
- Kasson, John F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0393240797
- ISBN 13
- 9780393240795
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 2014
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film, TV, & Video / Film / Performers; American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; Genre & Subject / Children;
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