The Crash forced Hoover, and then Roosevelt and the nation, to reexamine old solutions and address pressing questions of recovery and reform, economic growth and social justice.
The world beyond America changed also in these years, making the country rethink its relation to events in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
The illusion of superiority slowly died in the 1930s, sustaining a fatal blow in December 1941 at Pearl Harbor.
W. W. Norton & Company Anxious decades: america in prosperity and depression 1920-1941, paperback/michael e. parrish
