{"product_id":"the-trouble-ive-seen-four-stories-from-the-great-depression-paperback","title":"The Trouble I've Seen: Four Stories from the Great Depression - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartha Gellhorn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of four, heart-rending stories encapsulates Martha Gellhorn's experience of observing the Great Depression at first hand. It is fiction crafted with documentary accuracy, a vivid rendering of the effect of grinding poverty on body and soul, and of the slow collapse of the simple, homely sufficiency of American life leading to a deepening spiral of hopelessness and need. Martha was the youngest of sixteen, handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White House. From these pages, we understand the real cost of sudden destitution on a vast scale. We taste the dust in the mouth, smell the disease and feel the despair. And here, too, we can hear the earliest cadences of a writer who went on to become one of the greatest female war reporters of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduced by Caroline Moorehead\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 266\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261538676957,"sku":"9781906011628","price":39.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/5ujUOA8LMI9781906011628.webp?v=1785076996","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-trouble-ive-seen-four-stories-from-the-great-depression-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}