Abbott, Berenice, New York in the Thirties, Dover Publications, 1974.

This volume collects photographer Abbot's blackand-white shots of New York City during the Depression years.

Clurman, Harold, The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties, Da Capo Press, 1988.

Clurman, a member of the Group Theater (which first produced Men in White), chronicles the birth and development of this drama company.

"Conversations with . . . Sidney Kingsley," interview by John Guare and Ruth Goetz, in Dramatists Guild Quarterly, Autumn 1984, pp. 8, 21-31.

Two noted playwrights discuss Kingsley's plays, background, and theatrical history with Kingsley.

McElvaine, Robert S., The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941, Time Books, 1994.

McElvaine's revised edition focuses on the human consequences of the Great Depression.

Watkins, T. H., The Great Depression: America in the 1930s, Little Brown & Co., 1995.

In this companion piece to the PBS series of the same title, Watkins chronicles American life in the 1930s. The book...