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Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland
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Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland
by Shirley A Wiegand

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How civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity...
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Generation of Vipers
by Philip Wylie

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Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living - from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion - Generation of Vipers ranks with the works of De Tocqueville and Emerson in defining the...
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Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by Walter Ben Michaels

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Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity, Walter Benn Michaels asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to...
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War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
by Daniel Josep Singal

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Daniel Joseph Singal examines this struggle between the characteristic culture of twentieth-century America and the South's tenacious blend of Victorianism and the Cavalier myth....
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These United States: Portraits of America from the 1920s
by Daniel H Borus

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Collects for the first time a remarkable series of articles originally published in The Nation between 1922 and 1925. Stressing the personal impressions of the contributors, these 49 articles, one for each state of the union plus another for New York...
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Great Day Coming: A Memoir of the 1930's
by Hope Hale Davis

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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...
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Peddling Panaceas: Popular Economics in the New Deal Era
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Peddling Panaceas: Popular Economics in the New Deal Era
by Gary Dean Best



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Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooners, Heterosexuality, & the Tourist Industry at Niagara Falls
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Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooners, Heterosexuality, & the Tourist Industry at Niagara Falls
by Karen Dubinsky



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Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White
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Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White
by Earl Lewis



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Only Yesterday
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Only Yesterday
by Frederick L Allen

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Terrible honesty :mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
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Terrible honesty :mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
by Ann Douglas

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Hopes & Ashes: The Birth of Modern Times, 1929-1939
by Alice Goldf Marquis

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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....
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Saving Private Power: The Hidden History of "The Good War"
by Michael Zezima

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Documentary Expression & Thirties America
by William Stott



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The people talk :American voices from the Great Depression
by Benjamin Appel



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V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II (Harvest/HBJ Book)
by John Morton Blum



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Print of My Remembrance
by Augustus Thomas



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Culture of the Twenties
by Loren Baritz



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Just around the corner; a highly selective history of the thirties.
by Robert Bendiner



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Enclaves of Single Tax Or Economic Rent
by W C Huntington



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