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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. They lived a paradoxunwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, Well Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--And a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression by Ted Gup Publisher Comments andquot;A wonderful reminder that economic hardship can bring suffering but can also foster compassion and community.andquot; -The Boston Globe In hard economic times like these, readers will find bestselling author Ted Gup's unique book uplifting as... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis Publisher Comments Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal by James F. Simon Publisher Comments The author of acclaimed books on the bitter clashes between presidents and chief justices—Jefferson and Marshall, Lincoln and Taney—over the character of the nation, constitutional power, slavery, secession and the presidents war... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court by Jeff Shesol Publisher Comments Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court"s conservative majority left much of FDR"s agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal, but democracy itself, that stood on... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Plots Against the President: FDR, a Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right by Sally Denton Publisher Comments In March 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt finally became the nation's thirty-second president. The man swept in by a landslide four months earlier now took charge of a country in the grip of panic brought on by economic catastrophe. Though no one yet... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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The New Deal: A Modern History by Michael Hiltzik Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it, and benefited from it, rendering vital lessons... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 by Stanley Weintraub Publisher Comments Christmas 1941 came little more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The shock—in some cases overseas, elation—was worldwide. While Americans attempted to go about celebrating as usual, the reality of the just-declared war was on... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness -- And a Trove of Letters -- Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression by Ted Gup Publisher Comments An inspiring account of America at its worst — and Americans at their best — woven from the stories of Depression-era families who were helped by gifts from the author's generous and secretive grandfather. Shortly before Christmas 1933 in... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America by Burton W. Folsom, Jr. Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of New Deal or Raw Deal?, called “eye-opening” by the National Review, comes a fascinating exposé of Franklin Delano Roosevelts destructive wartime legacy—and its adverse impact on Americas... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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The Real Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election (American Presidential Elections) by W J Rorabaugh Publisher Comments When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory--whether as an underdog's heroic triumph or a liberal crusader's overcoming special interests. Now W. J. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rise & Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 by Steve Fraser Publisher Comments 'The New Deal Order is dead, ' the editors of this book write, offering their collection of provocative essays as 'a historical autopsy.' --The... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hard Times an Oral History of the Great by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments A reissue of Terkel's classic work, with a new introduction by the author. "HARD TIMES doesn't render the time of the Depression or historicize about it - it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories..." - Arthur Miller.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Woman Behind New Deal : Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins - Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage (09 Edition) by Kirstin Downey Publisher Comments “Kirstin Downey’s lively, substantive and—dare I say—inspiring new biography of Perkins . . . not only illuminates Perkins’ career but also deepens the known contradictions of Roosevelt’s character.” &mdash... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story [With DVD] by David Mccullough Synopsis Days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, British Prime... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M Barry Staff Pick "An account of the Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America. When the river flooded, it was possible to travel in a boat, east to west in the South, two hundred miles. The book is an account of how engineers had tried to control the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bonus Army: An American Epic by Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen Publisher Comments In the summer of 1932, at the height of the Depression, some forty-five thousand veterans of World War I descended on Washington, D.C., from all over the country to demand the bonus promised them eight years earlier for their wartime service. They lived... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey Publisher Comments Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Based on eight years of research, extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive access to Perkinss family members and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work by Nick Taylor Publisher Comments Chapter One The End of Jobs In 1932, the United States faced the greatest crisis in its history short of war. The American industrial powerhouse that had emerged at the end of the Great War in Europe had fallen still. The stillness had progressed from... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Why by Godfrey Hodgson Publisher Comments America in Our Time is a history of the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the fall of Richard Nixon. Focusing on the 1960s, the book debunks some of the myths about that much misremembered decade. Godfrey Hodgson pioneers the idea that... (read more) List Price $39.50 Your price: $16.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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