The March of Spare Time–Now in Paperback


The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression


Susan Currell

248 pages | 6 x 9 | 26 illus.

Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3859-4 | $45.00 | £29.50

Paper 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2125-1 | $22.50 | £15.00

The March of Spare Time"Clearly written and tightly argued. . . . The March of Spare Time provides an in-depth analysis of why the leisure question was 'such an intense object of interest, concern, and surveillance by national policy makers, experts, and intellectuals alike in the 1930s.'"—Journal of American History

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