The Greatest Generation
 Amazon.com Review: Tom Brokaw was born in 1940, but it wasn't until he was a famous newscaster that he began to contemplate what his parents' generation--those born between 1910 and the mid-1920s--had accomplished. Narrating his own book, he discusses [... more]
$9.95
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Ava's Man
Amazon.com Review: The same fierce pride and love that animated All Over but the Shoutin' glow in Rick Bragg's new book. In fact, he informs us in the prologue that it was the readers of his bestselling 1997 memoir about his mother's struggle to raise [... more]
$9.95
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The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph ...
Warts and All: The Defining Moment is extremely relevant to the current period, the transition between Presidents Bush and Obama. The parallels are impressive: pressure for the President-elect to start acting, vast economic problems, and even an [... more]
$11.99
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Growing Seasons, The
Poignant if a bit acidic: This is a prequel to the author's great war memoir, Flights of Passage, which I read with much appreciation 23 May 2001. If you have not read that book, by all means read this one first, then read it. This book is an account of [... more]
$14.00
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Riding the Rails
Amazon.com Review: "Go fend for yourself," Clarence Lee's father said. "I can't afford to have you around any longer." Like hundreds of thousands of other young people across the country during the Great Depression, the 16-year-old [... more]
$20.95
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa ...
greatbook: This is a wonderful book. The author does a great job of being sincere without being too sentimental. I highly recommend it. In addition, the book was delivered in great condition and in a timely manner. Wonderful Book: Bought this for my [... more]
$12.00
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"Or Does It Explode?": Black Harlem in the Great Depression
Author: Cheryl Greenberg Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 974.71 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 1997-03-27 [... more]
$40.43
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
Author: Jeffrey W. Coker Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 973.917092 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 2005-06-30 [... more]
$31.95
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Forgotten Man, The
Anti-Roosevelt nonsense: Typical anti-Roosevelt polemic. For people who still think that Herbert Hoover was a victim of circumstance and that 1920's Republicanism had nothing to do with the Wall Street crash of 1929. In short, historical revisionism at [... more]
$12.95
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The Worst Hard Time
The Worst Hard Time: The Worst Hard Time reveals the overwhelming challenges of the first immigrants who came to the Great American Desert to carve out a life. The descriptive quality of the text draws the reader into the horrendous conditions the [... more]
$14.95
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This Land, This Nation
Book Description: The book tells a new story about the New Deal period in U.S. history, which witnessed a critical expansion of the national government's power to regulate economic activity and to provide a certain measure of social welfare. Author: [... more]
$19.00
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Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929
A colossal event seen through individual's eyes: Maury Klein, in his book Rainbow's End: The crash of 1929, has given us a blend of a newer style of historiography with the traditional sense of examining historical events. He has given us a look at the [... more]
$17.95
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