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Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
by Susan Quinn  Publisher Comments A vivid portrait of the turbulent 1930s and the Roosevelt administration as seen through the WPA’s Federal Theater Project.Under the direction of a five-foot redheaded firecracker, Hallie Flanagan, the Federal Theater Project managed to turn a WPA...
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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 Servicemen’s...
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The 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...
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By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
by Paul S Boyer Publisher Comments Originally published in 1985, By the Bomb's Early Light is the first book to explore the cultural "fallout" in America during the early years of the atomic age. The book is based on a wide range of sources, including cartoons, opinion polls, radio...
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Prohibition : Thirteen Years That Changed America (96 Edition)
by Edward Behr Synopsis When the Constitution declared on January 16, 1920, that Americans could no longer buy or sell alcoholic drink, it sparked the wildest, booziest years in our nation's history. Everyone saw in Prohibition an unparalleled license to get rich. Here is the...
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Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America
by Michael Dobbs Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-304) and index....
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Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement
by Diana Selig Publisher Comments From the 1920sandmdash;a decade marked by racism and nativismandmdash;through World War II, hundreds of thousands of Americans took part in a vibrant campaign to overcome racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices. They celebrated the andldquo;cultural...
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Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland
by Shirley A. Wiegand Publisher Comments How civil liberties triumphed over national...
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The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections
by Tom Brokaw Synopsis Brokaw wrote the bestselling "The Greatest Generation" and now the subjects have written back. This book of letters and reflections allows members of the World War II generation and their families to speak for themselves....
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An Album of Memories
by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments “I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home...
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An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from World War II
by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments A seventeen-year-old who enlisted in the army in 1941 writes to describe the Bataan Death March. Other members of the greatest generation describe their war -- in such historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and...
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The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
by Lynn Dumenil Publisher Comments When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock...
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America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship Between the Wars (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
by Jaime Harker Synopsis Between the two world wars, American publishing entered a "golden age" characterized by an explosion of new publishers, authors, audiences, distribution strategies, and marketing techniques. The period was distinguished by a diverse literary culture...
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Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
by Christoph Capozzola Publisher Comments In April 1917, the United States embarked on its first overseas war - with no history of conscription, an army smaller than Bulgaria's, just two hundred agents in its federal Bureau of Investigation, and a political culture that saw little role for the...
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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. <BR>Allan Levine's newest book...
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Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War
by Peter N Carroll Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Foreword by E.L. Doctorow. When the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, loosely affiliated groups of writers, artists, and other politically aware individuals emerged in New York City to give voice to...
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Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments "They came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America -- men and women whose everyday lives of duty, honor, achievement, and courage gave us the world we have today." In this magnificent...
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The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920's
by Paula S Fass Synopsis Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now....
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The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
by Stefan Kuhl Publisher Comments When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic...
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The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections
by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments "I first began to appreciate fully all we owed the World War II generation while I was covering the fortieth and fiftieth anniversaries of D-Day for NBC News. When I wrote in "The Greatest Generation about the men and women who came out of the Depression,...
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