This is a truth accepted by economists of basically all political persuasion at this point. The best book on the subject is Barry Eichengreen's "Golden Fetters"

This is a truth accepted by economists of basically all political persuasion at this point. The best book on the subject is Barry Eichengreen's "Golden Fetters", but you can get a faster sense of things by going to NBER (nber.org), searching for "great depression" or "gold standard" and walking through the results.