Education

We can see from the results here that probably not a lot has changed in the 50 years following this survey, the same reasons persist. Although, the word marriage might feature less in people’s replies as that institution’s power has lessened in the intervening time.

At the time of this survey the United States was smack in the middle of the Great Depression.  People were out of work and a large majority were out of hope.  Some people looked for a distraction from their despair.  The golden era of TV was still over a decade away and although FDR and his fireside chats gave some hope, most turned to books. But what kind of books do you turn to during such a helpless time?  This survey from 1937 wanted to know exactly that and below is what they found.