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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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FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America by Burton Folsom 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) List Price $27.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor by Edward S Miller Book News Annotation According to the generally accepted version, the US was attacked without provocation by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. In fact, according to Miller, a retired chief financial officer of a major US corporation, newly unclassified materials indicate the... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Abraham Epstein: The Forgotten Father of Social Security by Pierre Epstein Publisher Comments Social Security has long been called the third rail of American politics an unassailable institution for which we can thank Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Or can we? Abraham Epstein was a major figure in American social reform during the first half of the... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $39.89 Google eBooks - Electronic
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United States History: 1912 to 1941 (Essentials) by Steven E Woodworth Synopsis Exceptionally comprehensive series in a variety of different fields, from the most basic to the most advanced. Truly a testimony to REA's competence in diverse disciplines - As their name implies, these concise, thorough study guides summarize the... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America by Adam Cohen Publisher Comments An account of the first one hundred days of FDR's presidency traces the transformation that took place throughout the federal government in the wake of unprecedented bank failures, unemployment, and poverty levels.... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force That Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt by Julie M Fenster Publisher Comments In 1921, Franklin Delano Roosevelt—the 1920 vice presidential candidate on the losing Democratic ticket—was overcome by an illness that left him unable to walk. He retired to his family estate in Hyde Park with his wife, Eleanor, who... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson Publisher Comments "WHEN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WAS WHITE demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. This was no accident. With the United States still in an era of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America by Adam Cohen Publisher Comments "A fascinating account of an extraordinary moment in the life of the United States." --The New York Times With the world currently in the grips of a financial crisis unlike anything since the Great Depression, Nothing to Fear could not be timelier. This... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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American Dreamer: The Life of Henry A. Wallace by John C Culver Publisher Comments The great politician, agriculturalist, economist, author, and businessman--loved and reviled, and finally now revealed. The first full biography of Henry A. Wallace, a visionary intellectual and one of this century's most important and controversial... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism by Haynes Johnson Publisher Comments For five long years in the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-Communist crusade dominated the American scene, terrified politicians, and destroyed the lives of thousands of our citizens. In this masterful history, Haynes Johnson re-creates that... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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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 $32.50 Your price: $16.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America by T H Watkins Publisher Comments It was the worst of times and the best of times. It was an era of unprecedented crisis and a time of unprecedented courage. In a single, comprehensive volume, The Hungry Years tells the story of the Great Depression through the eyes of the people who... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance by Robert Klara Publisher Comments The April 1945 journey of FDRs funeral train became a thousand-mile odyssey, fraught with heartbreak and scandal. As it passed through the night, few of the grieving onlookers gave thought to what might be happening behind the Pullman shades, where... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election by Zachary Karabell Publisher Comments The author of The Third World and the Cold War focuses on the Truman-Dewey campaign, analyzing the use of mass media to win voters and the rise of fringe parties on both ends of the political spectrum. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Kennedy V. Nixon: The Presidential Election of 1960 by Edmund F Kallina Synopsis "For almost half a century The Making of the President, 1960 has stood as the standard work on this topic. Kallina has exposed the mythology of Theodore White's description of Camelot. For the first time we have an unbiased portrayal of what... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953 (Critical Issue) by Melvyn P Leffler Publisher Comments The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The Specter of Communism is a concise history of the origins of the Cold War and the evolution of U.S.-Soviet relations... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War by David A Nichols Publisher Comments A gripping tale of international intrigue, betrayal, and personal drama during the darkest days of the Cold War, Eisenhower 1956 is the first major book to examine the event in thirty years. Debunking most historians’ opinion that the Suez crisis... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--And the Shoot-Out That Stopped It by Stephen Hunter Publisher Comments American Gunfight is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event -- the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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