The American Earthquake: A Documentary of the Twenties & Thirties »

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) served on the staffs of Vanity Fair, The New Republic, and The New Yorker; his many books include I Thought of Daisy, Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, Memoirs of Hecate County, The Shores of Light, and Patriotic Gore.

"During a twelve-month period in 1930 and 1931, Edmund Wilson wrote a series of lengthy articles which he then collected in a book called American Jitters: A Year of the Slump. The resulting chronicle"

Library Journal

This collection of nonliterary essays show Wilson "at the peak of his powers as a critic, reporter, and caustic wit," said LJ's reviewer. "These samples of brilliant journalism and satirical observation run the gamut from the Ziegfeld Follies to the depths of the Depression, the New Deal, and the case of the Scottsboro Negro boys" (LJ 3/1/58). A nice companion to the work by his buddy Fitzgerald above.