Depressions - 1929 - United States
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In the Shadow of the Mountain: The Spirit of the CCC
$19.95 Read moreOn March 21, 1933, with the nation in darkest despair because of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to create a civilian conservation corps to be used in forestry, th
- Author: Hill, Edwin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 07 1990
- ISBN10: 0874220734
- Language: English
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Picturing a Nation: The Great Depression’s Finest Photographers Introduce America to Itself
$24.99 Add to cartA National Book Award winner mines photographic gold to show–and tell–the story of the Great Depression.
In an exquisitely curated volume of 140 full-color and black-and-white photographs, Martin W- Author: Sandler, Martin W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1536215252
- Language: English
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A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression: A James Beard Award Winner
$18.99 Add to cartJames Beard Foundation Book Award Winner
From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced
- Author: Ziegelman, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062216422
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
$21.99 Add to cartIn The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation’s most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Deale
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0060936428
- Language: English
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Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
$25.99 Add to cartIn the mid 1930s, North America’s Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster’s classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 19… [more below]
- Author: Worster, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0195174887
- Language: English
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The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe New Deal shaped our nation’s politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the “American Way” itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rauchway, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0195326342
- Language: English
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What Was the Great Depression?
$7.99 Add to cartOn October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market – the system that controls money in America – plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning … [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Pascal, Janet B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0448484277
- Language: English
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They Never Threw Anything Away, Memories of the Great Depression by Americans Who Lived It
$20.00 Add to cartThey Never Threw Anything Away
Memories of the Great Depression by Americans Who Lived It
The parallels to the present are ominous: an international pandemic killing nearly 700,000 Americans, followed b
- Author: Linz, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1736734806
- Language: English
