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Depressions 1929 United States National characteristics, American New Deal New Deal, 1933-1939 United States Economic conditions 1918-1945 United States History 1919-1933 United States History 1933-1945 United States Social conditions 1918-1932 United States Social conditions 1933-1945 United States Social conditions 1945-Terkel, Studs
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TERLovett, Laura L.
Summary: "The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, co-founder of Ms. Magazine and trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women's movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, DOROTHY PUTMAN LOVKenyon, Amy Maria.
Contents: Rumors from a motel in Detroit -- Mapping postwar space and culture -- Spaces of detachment -- Critiques of suburban conformity -- Everyday life and suburban estrangement -- The city that would not go away -- Postwar space and culture in context.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENEisler, Benita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 EISJacoby, Susan
Summary: Traces the current of anti-intellectualism from post-WWII to the present and argues that the nation's cult of unreason is both deadly and destructive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 JACMiller, Douglas T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 MILJenkins, Philip
Contents: Mainstreaming the sixties -- Going too far : bicentennial America -- Against the grain -- The politics of children : 1977 -- Predators -- Captive America : 1980 -- Into the Reagan era -- Evil empires -- Dark victories -- The abuse epidemic -- Wars without end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 JENKing, Martin Luther
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 KINSummary: A collection of 180 personal, true-life accounts from NPR's National Story Project reflects the work of men and women of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life and is accompanied by a look at the role of storytelling in our lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 ITHBrands, H. W.
Summary: From bestselling historian H. W. Brands, an incisive chronicle of the events and trends that guided--and sometimes misguided--our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone. Ultimately Brands captures the national experience through the last six decades and reveals the still-unfolding legacy of dreams born out of a global cataclysm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 BRALeebaert, Derek.
Summary: This first cohesively integrated history of the Cold War is replete with important lessons for today. Drawing upon literature, strategy, biography, and economics--plus an inside perspective from the intelligence community--Derek Leebaert explores what Americans sacrificed at the same time that they achieved the longest great-power peace since Rome fell. Why did they commit so much in wealth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 LEERobertson, Robin
Summary: A D-Day vet with post-traumatic stress disorder roams the United States and eventually finds work as a journalist during a time of social and racial divisions, spiraling corruption and the collapse of the inner cities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBPutnam, Robert D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 PUTLeebaert, Derek
Summary: "Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis. Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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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
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ken Burns documents the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2012
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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 SHLCohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
Summary: Brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history--the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government in response to the Crash of 1929 and its consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 CohSummary: The draught of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SURHenriques, 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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Summary: A survey of major changes in American life and ideas during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on economic expansion and its influence on the American standard of living, thinking, and citizenship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1952
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 ALLZiegelman, Jane
Summary: "From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced--the Great Depression--and how it transformed America's culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016