History 322 Discussion Questions
July 18, 2013

1. What is the overall message of FDR in 1933?  What is the tone and intent?
2. What do we learn from Springer's account about conditions during the Great Depression?  Is it sympathetic either to the government in its efforts to solve the crisis, or the victims of the crisis (ie is there any apparent bias to this source)?
3. According to Bernstein, "...the Great Depression proved incurable...[and]...its very intractability suggests that something more fundamental, immune to all the experimental innovation of public policy, was awry at the very core of the country's economy."  What, according to Bernstein, was the underlying problem?