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In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
by Michael Lienesch  Publisher Comments The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. In the Beginning investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state...
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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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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 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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Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America
by Michael Dobbs Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-304) and index....
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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...
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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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Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation
by Suzanne Mettler Publisher Comments "A hell of a gift, an opportunity." "Magnanimous." "One of the greatest advantages I ever experienced." These are the voices of World War II veterans, lavishing praise on their beloved G.I. Bill. Transcending boundaries of class and race, the Bill...
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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...
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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 Synopsis 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. Paul Boyer argues that the major aspects of the long-running debates about nuclear armament...
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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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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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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 Levine’s newest book chronicles...
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Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War
by Peter N. (edt) 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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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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Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture
by Bruce Lenthall Publisher Comments Orson Welles’s greatest breakthrough into the popular consciousness occurred in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane, when his War of the Worlds radio broadcast succeeded so spectacularly that terrified listeners believed they were hearing a...
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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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You Can't Print That! the Truth Behind the News 1918 to 1928
by George Seldes Synopsis 1929. George Seldes, an American correspondent, deals with the problem of censorship in WWI, postwar Italy, Russia, Africa and Mexico by publishing the vivid, graphic stories found in this book. Contents: The War; Italy; Russia; Arabia; The Truth about...
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Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland
by Shirley A Wiegand Synopsis How civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity...
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