Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, by David M. Kennedy.
Very readable in-depth overview of that other depression. Long, but somehow not long enough, considering the timespan and the fact that a lot of stuff happened between those two dates. Kennedy is a writer who explains complex concepts clearly and coherently, and has the endearing trait of occasionally puffing up his chest and exhaling a gust of purple-tinted writerliness. A wonderful book. And Hoover doesn't come off as half the feckless moron that many today would have you think. To compare Bush to Hoover is to do old HH a great disservice. 
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