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American Dream Economic history Germans United States Genealogy Immigrants United States Registers United States United States Economic conditions 2009- United States Economic conditions 21st century United States Economic policy 2009- United States Politics and government 2009- United States Social conditions 21st centuryLeonhardt, David
Summary: "Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and, after some progress, the Black-white wage gap is once again as large as it was in the 1950s. How did this happen in the world's most powerful country? And what happened to the "American dream"--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of German immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 MONGerster, Michelle
Summary: "A poignant bilingual YA graphic memoir about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border. This compelling young adult graphic memoir tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who crosses the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey is filled with both heartbreak and hope. Will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH GERBlack, Monica
Summary: "In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through a war-torn Germany. As millions were afflicted by a host of seemingly incurable maladies (including blindness and paralysis), waves of apocalyptic rumors crashed over the land. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 BLASummary: Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHEAbramitzky, Ran
Summary: "Through this authoritative account of the historical record and important new findings, Abramitzky and Boustan will help shape our thinking and policies about the fraught topic of immigration with findings such as: Where you come from doesn't matter. The children of immigrants from El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala today are as likely to be as successful as the children of immigrants from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.6 ABRSummary: Working for change: Explores the birth of the social documentary in the U.S. and U.K. during the years of the Great Depression and the New Deal, featuring interviews with several of the people who helped define and shape the form.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOSummary: "The True Cost is a groundbreaking new documentary film that pulls back the curtain on an unseen part of our world and asks us each to consider, who pays the price for our clothing? Filmed in countries all over the world, from the brightest runways to the darkest slums and features interviews with the world's leading influencers including Stella McCartney, Livia Firth, Vandana Shiva and many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRUBarth, Rüdiger
Summary: November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between rival political parties, the Weimar Republic is on its last legs. In the halls of the Reichstag, party leaders scramble for power and influence as the elderly president, Paul von Hindenburg, presides over a democracy pushed to the breaking point. Chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher spin a web of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.085 BARSummary: In the wake of Argentina's spectacular economics collapse, Latin America's most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. Explores how Argentina's 2001 economic collapse, where a prosperous middle-class economy was destroyed during 10 years of IMF policies, impacted the lives of ordinary workers. Follows 30 unemployed auto-parts workers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TAKPutnam, Robert D.
Summary: "What has happened to the Land of Opportunity? The promise of the American Dream is that anyone, regardless of his or her origins, can have a fair start in life. If we work hard, we can get a good education and achieve success. But over the last several decades a disturbing 'opportunity gap' has unexpectedly emerged between kids from 'have' and 'have-not' backgrounds. The central tenet of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.5 PUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.3 PUTTooze, Adam.
Summary: In this groundbreaking history, Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi war machine and its undoing. There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics--it was Hitler's obsession and the reason the Nazis came to power in the first place. The Second World War was fought, in Hitler's view, to create a European empire strong enough to take on the United States. But as this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 TOOGalbraith, James K.
Summary: "The years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe--and a stale argument between two false solutions, "austerity" on one side and "stimulus" on the other. Both sides and practically all analyses of the crisis so far take for granted that the economic growth from the early 1950s until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339 GALMaharidge, Dale
Summary: "Nonfiction memoir and social history by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Dale Maharidge sharing the lives, images, and experiences of the American poor around the United States from Great Depression era America to COVID and economic downturn in 2020 - examines themes of class, race, and privilege, and connects these stories to activists currently working to create economic justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Unnamed Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 MAHD'Souza, Dinesh
Summary: In this blockbuster follow-up to the "New York Times"-bestseller "The Roots of Obama's Rage," D'Souza reveals how President Obama's recent actions prove his anti-colonialist roots and predicts how much worse America will be if President Obama wins a second term.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 DSOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.932 DSOSchenk, Trudy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry Inc. 1986
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.343 SCHSchenk, Trudy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry Inc. 1986
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.343 Schenk v.7Timiraos, Nick
Summary: "By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs. One month later, the public health battle against a deadly virus had pushed the economy into the equivalent of a medically induced coma. America's workplaces-offices, shops, malls, and factories-shuttered. Many of the nation's largest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 TIMKilar, Jeremy W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2002
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTPGrunwald, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 GRUSchenk, Trudy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry Inc. 1986
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.343 SchSummary: A "farewell cruise" takes a luxury ship up the vast Yangtze River shortly before completion of the massive Three Gorges Dam. The passengers glimpse a rapidly changing countryside, while the local people struggle to adapt as their lives are irrevocably altered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UP
Saslow, Eli.
Summary: Documents the experiences of ten ordinary citizens who have shared their ambitions and struggles in letters written to President Obama, tracing how Obama personally responded and the ways in which the letters reflect American endurance and optimism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 SASSteyn, Mark.
Contents: Prologue: the stupidity of broke -- The new Rome: the decaying city -- Undreaming America: serfing USA -- The new Athens: the drowning city -- Decline: American idyll -- The new Britannia: the depraved city -- Fall: beyond the green zone -- The new Jerusalem: the city besieged -- After: a letter from the post-American world -- Epilogue: the hope of audacity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2011