Egan, Timothy
Summary: "The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people who held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US EganFavreau, 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 FAVLüsted, Marcia Amidon
Summary: Introduces the Great Depression, inviting readers to investigate its causes, offering insights into daily life and how the economics of the time shaped politics, and discussing Roosevelt's New Deal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press, A division of Nomad Communications 2016
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Summary: It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 SHLAlgeo, Matthew.
Summary: Recounts the summer of 1893 when President Grover Cleveland disappeared for five days, covering up a surgery to remove cancer from his palate and jaw.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEVELAND, GROVER ALGSummary: "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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.916 GREKurkov, Lisa
Summary: "Bud Caldwell, the protaganist of Christopher Paul Curtis's novel Bud, Not Buddy, is on a mission to find the man he believes to be his father--bandleader Herman E. Calloway. In this nonfiction companion to the popular novel, you'll explore what real life was like during the Depression-era setting of the book, who the real jazz musicians of the era were, and what life was like living in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Educational Media 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.91 KURStanley, Jerry
Summary: Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1992
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Summary: Learn about the Great Depression, from its roots in the economic boom of the 1920s to its conclusion during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.916 MCDWatkins, T. H. (Tom H.)
Summary: It was the worst of times and the best of times. It was an era of unprecedented crisis and a time of unprecedented courage. Now, in a single, comprehensive volume, The Hungry Years tells the story of the Great Depression through the eyes of the people who lived through it. Less concerned with the power brokers in Washington than with the daily struggles of ordinary people at the grassroots...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.916 WATBurgan, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOUGitlin, Marty
Summary: "The Great Depression was a defining era that shaped America--and the world. Readers will turn back the clock to history's turning points during that era and will take a closer look at the major challenges and hurdles the United States faced. Readers will review how this period influenced the American culture from the fashion to the policies to the entertainment. The series includes educational...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.916 GITHenderson, Eleanor
Summary: "Novel set in the south during the Great Depression that takes an entirely fresh view on big American themes-- race, heredity, inequality, shame-- set in a time of financial crisis and racialized violence"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENHenriques, Diana B.
Summary: "Taming the Street tells the epic story of the FDR's battle to regulate Wall Street for the very first time in the wake of the Crash of 1929 that ushered in the Great Depression. Deeply reported and vividly told, it provides a trip back to a time when the power of concentrated wealth in America arguably exceeded that of the federal government. Roosevelt's campaign to curb the excesses of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 HENKnowlton, Christopher
Summary: "Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.33 KNOLangston-George, Rebecca
Summary: "Uses primary sources to tell the story of the Dust Bowl"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CLARK, MARY HIGGINS CLAClark, Mary Higgins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 ClarkEichengreen, Barry J.
Summary: "There have been two global financial crises in the past century: the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession that began in 2008. Both featured loose credit, precarious real estate and stock market bubbles, suspicious banking practices, an inflexible monetary system, and global imbalances; both had devastating economic consequences. In both cases, people in the prosperous decade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 EICGalbraith, John Kenneth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1955
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.54 GALKaskowitz, Sheryl
Summary: "In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest-Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024