1. The 1920s, Depression, and Hoover

2. Single Interest Politics Tariff policies and Foreign Debt Repayment Internal implications? International implications?

3. Single Interest Politics Tax and regulatory policies Agriculture policies

4. Idolizing Businessmen Henry Ford Samuel Insull

6. Advertising and Consumer Society Bruce Barton and The Man Nobody Knows

7. Winners and Losers Which groups in American society gained and lost as a result of single interest politics? Corporations and stock holders? Labor? Farmers?

8. The Crash and After What caused the depression? The Crash? More fundamental economic weaknesses? Could alternate economic policies during the 1920s have averted this national disaster?

9. The Depression’s Severity Just how severe was the financial, economic, and social dislocation?

10. Hoover’s Response A “do-nothing” president? A 1920s style progressive? A “typical” engineer? A prisoner of his personal ideology and life’s experience?

11. Hoover’s Response What were his most important actions? Why ultimately unsuccessful?