The
Great Depression led to a steep decline in book sales in the early 1930s, this led to a small revival in pamphlet literature. Between 1932 and 1934 the John Day Company published a pamphlet series known as The John Day Pamphlet Series. In total, 45 were published. They are as follows: •
Rebecca West, Arnold Bennett Himself •
Stuart Chase, Out of the Depression—and After: A Prophecy •
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, The New Russian Policy: June 23, 1931 •
Norman Edwin Himes, The Truth about Birth Control: With a Bibliography of Birth Control Literature •
Walter Lippmann, Notes on the Crisis •
Charles Austin Beard, The Myth of Rugged American Individualism •
Rexford Guy Tugwell, Mr. Hoover's Economic Policy •
Herman Hagedorn, The three pharaohs: a dramatic poem •
Marion Hawthorne Hedges, A Strikeless Industry: A Review of the National Council on Industrial Relations for the Electrical Construction Industry •
Gilbert Seldes, Against Revolution •
George Sylvester Counts,
Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (Special, 56 pages) •
Hendrik Willem Van Loon, To Have or to Be—Take Your Choice •
Norman Thomas, The Socialist Cure for a Sick Society •
Herbert George Wells, What Should be Done—Now: A Memorandum on the World Situation •
Victor Francis Calverton, For Revolution •
Horace Meyer Kallen, College Prolongs Infancy •
Richard Bartlett Gregg, Gandhiism versus Socialism •
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Is There a Case for Foreign Missions? •
Stuart Chase, Technocracy: An Interpretation •
Albert Einstein, The Fight Against War. Edited by Alfred Lief. (Special, 64 pages) •
Arthur Gordon Melvin, Education for a New Era: a Call to Leadership •
John Strachey, Unstable Money •
Ambrose William Benkert and
Earl Harding, How to Restore Values: The Quick, Safe Way Out of the Depression •
Everett Ross Clinchy, The Strange Case of Herr Hitler •
Walter Lippmann, A New Social Order •
Elwyn Brooks White, Alice Through the Cellophane •
Osgood Nichols and
Comstock Glaser, Work Camps for America •
Louis Morton Hacker, The Farmer is Doomed •
Archibald MacLeish, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City • Committee of the
Progressive Education Association on Social and Economic Problems, A Call to the Teachers of the Nation •
Henry Hazlitt, Instead of Dictatorship •
Stuart Chase, The Promise of Power •
Matthew Josephson, Nazi Culture: The Brown Darkness Over Germany •
Maurice Finkelstein, The Dilemma of the Supreme Court: Is the N.R.A. Constitutional? •
Leon Trotsky, What Hitler Wants • Audacity! More Audacity! Always Audacity!, Published in Cooperation with The United Action Campaign Committee •
Harold Rugg and
Marvin Krueger, Study Guide to National Recovery: An Introduction to Economic Problems •
Bertram David Wolfe, Marx and America •
Marquis William Childs, Sweden: Where Capitalism is Controlled •
Sir Arthur Salter, Toward a Planned Economy •
Edward Albert Filene, The Consumer's Dollar • Rev.
John Haynes Holmes, Is Suicide Justifiable? •
Mary Catherine Philips and
Frederick John Schlink, Discovering Consumers •
James Rorty, Order on the Air! The last page of pamphlet 45 is currently visible on
HathiTrust, listing all pamphlets in order. ==Other book series==