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American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work
by Nick Taylor  Publisher Comments If you've traveled the nation's highways, flown into New York's LaGuardia Airport, strolled San Antonio's River Walk, or seen the Pacific Ocean from the Beach Chalet in San Francisco, you have experienced some part of the legacy of the Works Progress...
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The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
by Laton Mccartney Publisher Comments Mix hundreds of millions of dollars in petroleum reserves; rapacious oil barons and crooked politicians; under-the-table payoffs; murder, suicide, and blackmail; White House cronyism; and the excesses of the Jazz Age. The result: the granddaddy of all...
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
by John M Barry 
Powells.com 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...
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Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940
by David E. Kyvig Publisher Comments In this fascinating book, David Kyvig describes everyday life in the 20s-40s decade, when automobiles and home electricity became commonplace, and radio and the movies became popular. The details of work life, domestic life, and leisure activities make...
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1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
by David Pietrusza Publisher Comments The presidential election of 1920 was among history’s most dramatic. Six once-and-future presidents-Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt-jockeyed for the White House. With voters choosing between Wilson’s League...
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The Great Depression: America 1929-1941
by Robert S Mcelvaine Publisher Comments A perennial backlist performer....
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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression
by Alan Brinkley Publisher Comments The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America....
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Oxford History of the United States #9: Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
by David M Kennedy Publisher Comments Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom From Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities...
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Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War
by H W Brands Publisher Comments In the late 1950s, Washington was driven by its fear of communist subversion: it saw the hand of Kremlin behind developments at home and across the globe. The FBI was obsessed with the threat posed by American communist party--yet party membership had...
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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...
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The Fifties
by David Halberstam Publisher Comments The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles...
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Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind
by Bruce Watson Publisher Comments The riveting true story of one of the nations most infamous trials and executions. When the state of Massachusetts electrocuted Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti on August 23, 1927, it concluded one of the most controversial legal cases in...
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Forgotten Man: a New History of the Great Depression (07 Edition)
by Shlaes Publisher Comments It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. These are the people at the heart of Amity Shlaes's...
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The view from Alger's window :a son's memoir
by Tony Hiss Publisher Comments This powerful and moving memoir opens a new perspective on one of the most controversial and still talked-about figures of the century. Using his father's letters from prison--three a week, two pages long, were allowed--and other family letters never...
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The New Deal and the West
by Richard Lowitt Book News Annotation **** Reprint of the estimable book originally published by Indiana University Press in 1984--which edition is cited in BCL3. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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New Deal/New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader
by Anthony Badger Synopsis The twelve essays in this book, several published here for the first time, represent some of Tony Badger's best work in his ongoing examination of how white liberal southern politicians who came to prominence in the New Deal and World War II handled the...
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The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture)
by Ellen Schrecker Publisher Comments Incorporating important recent scholarship, this popular supplement combines a comprehensive essay on the history of McCarthyism with compelling documents that trace the course of anti-Communist furor in the U.S. The volume’s 95-page essay follows...
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Warren G. Harding (American Presidents)
by John W Dean Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-191) and index....
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Rethinking the Great Depression (American Ways Series)
by Gene Smiley Publisher Comments Drawing upon recent economic scholarship to present a clear and nontechnical analysis, Mr. Smiley offers new insights and some surprising conclusions about the causes of the Great Depression, the consequences of the New Deal, and the economic effects of...
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In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America
by Pierce Odonnell Publisher Comments It's a true story that reads like gripping fiction: in June 1942, eight German terrorists landed by submarine on the shores of Long Island and Florida with a mission to blow up major buildings and railroad hubs throughout the United States. In Time of...
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