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Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America by David A. Taylor Publisher Comments advance praise for soul of a people "A wonderful and engaging book . . . David Taylor's Soul of a People will make you secretly wish that you could have been one of the thousands of writers who, during the height of the Depression, set out to paint an... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover 
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The Devil in Babylon: Fear of Progress and the Birth of Modern Life by Allan Levine Publisher Comments What should the modern world look like? Who should be its leaders? And what values should it embrace? We have never wrestled over these questions more than in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Allan Levines newest book chronicles this... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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Soul of a People: The Wpa Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America by David A. Taylor Publisher Comments advance praise for soul of a people "A wonderful and engaging book . . . David Taylor's Soul of a People will make you secretly wish that you could have been one of the thousands of writers who, during the height of the Depression, set out to paint an... (read more) Your price: $18.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream by Edward Humes Publisher Comments In 1944, the U.S. government feared the flood of returning World War II soldiers as much as it looked forward to peace. To avoid economic catastrophe, FDR, the American Legion, William Randolph Hearst, and others began crafting the Servicemens... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II by Lewis A Erenberg Publisher Comments The War in American Culture explores the role of World War II in the transformation of American social, cultural, and political life. World War II posed a crisis for American culture: to defeat the enemy, Americans had to unite across the class, racial... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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America in the Twenties and Thirties: The Olympian Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Sean Dennis Cashman Publisher Comments Surveys American history during the 20s and 30s, looks at the economic and social conditions during the period, and discusses Roosevelt's... (read more) List Price $18.40 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments "In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Day Coming: A Memoir of the 1930's by Hope Hale Davis Publisher Comments Hope Hale Davis's memoir of her years as a secret member of the American Communist Party is part political history and part tragic love story, a book in which the competing forces of the day -- communism and psychoanalysis, Marx and Freud -- come... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hopes & Ashes: The Birth of Modern Times, 1929-1939 by Alice Goldf Marquis TOC Written on the wind, the impact of radio -- Sound and fury, Hollywood and the writers -- Men to match my media, the print empires -- "but is it art?", the marketing of the modern -- The world of tomorrow, Flushing Meadows, 1939.... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Working for Utopia: 1937-1953 by Mark Walker List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Print of My Remembrance by Augustus Thomas Your price: $5.98 Used - Hardcover
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