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Greenspan, Alan 1926- New Deal, 1933-1939 Juvenile literature Postwar reconstruction Economic aspects United States Commerce History United States Economic conditions 1918-1945 United States Economic conditions 1918-1945 Juvenile literature United States Economic conditions 1945- United States History 1919-1933 Juvenile literature United States History 1933-1945 Juvenile literature United States Politics and government 1945-1989Favreau, Marc
Summary: "Marc Favreau documents the Great Depression--a time when Americans from all walks of life fell victim to poverty, insecurity, and fear--and tells the incredible story of how they survived and, ultimately, thrived. This is the story of the Great Depression in the United States, from the sweeping consequences of the market collapse to the more personal stories of individuals and communities...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.91 FAVGordon, Robert J.
Summary: Examines the economic growth of the United States since the Civil War, arguing that the rate of growth between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated and that a number of issues are further stagnating the already slow rate of productivity growth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.3 GORPetroski, Henry.
Summary: "Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly sixty-five thousand bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient.' This crisis--and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.1 PETWartzman, Rick
Summary: In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola--he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 WARGreenspan, Alan
Summary: The former Federal Reserve Board chairman reveals the financial close call that nearly resulted in an economic disaster after September 11, his efforts to safeguard American interests, and the personal and educational history that informed his choices.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 332.11092 GREGreenspan, Alan
Summary: Alan Greenspan shares the story of his life with an eye toward doing justice to the extraordinary amount of history that he has experienced and shaped. One of his goals is to draw readers along the same learning curve he followed, so that they gain a grasp of his own understanding of the underlying dynamics that drive world events. The book is a distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 332.11092 GREMurray, Charles A.
Summary: A critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MURSummary: "A history of the Great Depression, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works and photographs; excerpts from literary works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries; summary boxes; a timeline; maps; and a list of additional resources"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.916 GREMacGillis, Alec
Summary: "The story of regional inequality in America as revealed by the rise of Amazon and its distribution network"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381 MACBurgan, Michael.
Summary: "Describes the people and events of the Great Depression. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a Bonus Army marcher, a teenager riding the rails, and a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOUSummary: Americans buy cattle at Toronto cattle auction
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1948
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Summary: Stockbroker office; men watch stock ticker
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Behind-scenes look at new "television advertising
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Large metal gears turning in some factory
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Office scenes. Filing, doing accounting work by hand, people at desks, switchboard etc.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Gasoline refinery fire belches black smoke (in New Orleans)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1957
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Freeman, Joshua Benjamin.
Summary: Examines the movements and developments that propelled the United States to world dominance, covering the transformations of World War II, the tragedies that shaped American civic life, and the loss of individual liberty to private corporations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 FRESummary: Lab technicians in pharmaceutical industry
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1956
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Halberstam, David.
Summary: "The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that David Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. It is the decade of Joe McCarthy and the young Martin Luther King, the Korean War and Levittown, Jack Kerouac and Elvis Presley. Halberstam not only gives us the titans of the age - Eisenhower, Dulles, Oppenheimer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 HALGibney, Bruce
Summary: Gibney shows how America was hijacked by a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts-- acting, in other words, as sociopaths-- they turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. In the 2030s damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Oil rigs pumping
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Automobile transmission plant (factory work)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Documentary on the history of the Dunlop rubber company
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1952
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Summary: Coca-Cola festival in Bombay, India--an interesting bit of corporate imperialism. Outdoor party with people drinking Coke, a mascot there, etc.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1952