Our "Depression Diary" Soon To Be a Book

Longtime readers of TBM have probably encountered the 1931 financial diaries of Benjamin Roth, a lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. Starting last fall, we published five excerpts (here are links to Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5).

But these chilling excerpts are a tiny fraction of the overall material; there are hundreds and hundreds of entries that continue throughout the Depression and into World War II. Not surprisingly, we received many requests from readers asking where they could find the entire diary. Well, some good news: Roth's diary will be published as a book this fall by PublicAffairs Books, edited by myself and Daniel Roth (Benjamin's son). It should be in bookstores in time for the 80^th anniversary of the stock market crash (Oct. 29). But if you order an advance copy from Amazon here, it should arrive sooner than that.