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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
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Catalog of Copyright Entries
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
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The Great Depression
Author: Edmund O. StillmanPublisher: New Word City
ISBN: 1612309038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
The event that defined the 1930s in the United States came before it started. On October 29, "Black Tuesday," stock-market investors lost more than $30 billion in the Great Crash. The ten-year Great Depression that followed was not the product of a single day or week. Nonetheless, it came as a shock to the American people and to the man they looked to for relief: President Herbert Hoover. Soon, as banks failed, mortgages were foreclosed, and unemployment soared, bread lines formed throughout the country in grim testimony to the state of the economy. The policies of Hoover and then Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal started a long road to relief, recovery, and reform. Here, from the respected historian Edmund O. Stillman, are the stories of The Great Depression, the 1930s, and an American people defined by their resilience in the face of debilitating despair.
Ansel Adams in Color
Author: Andrea G. StillmanPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316056410
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Renowned as America's pre-eminent black-and-white landscape photographer, Ansel Adams began to photograph in color soon after Kodachrome film was invented in the mid 1930s. He made nearly 3,500 color photographs, a small fraction of which were published for the first time in the 1993 edition of ANSEL ADAMS IN COLOR. In this newly revised and expanded edition, 20 unpublished photographs have been added. New digital scanning and printing technologies allow a more faithful representation of Adams's color photography.
Alphabetical Index of Occupations
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
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Category : Occupations
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era
Author: Barry SchwartzPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226741907
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
By the 1920s, Abraham Lincoln had transcended the lingering controversies of the Civil War to become a secular saint, honored in North and South alike for his steadfast leadership in crisis. Throughout the Great Depression and World War II, Lincoln was invoked countless times as a reminder of America’s strength and wisdom, a commanding ideal against which weary citizens could see their own hardships in perspective. But as Barry Schwartz reveals in Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era, those years represent the apogee of Lincoln’s prestige. The decades following World War II brought radical changes to American culture, changes that led to the diminishing of all heroes—Lincoln not least among them. As Schwartz explains, growing sympathy for the plight of racial minorities, disenchantment with the American state, the lessening of patriotism in the wake of the Vietnam War, and an intensifying celebration of diversity, all contributed to a culture in which neither Lincoln nor any single person could be a heroic symbol for all Americans. Paradoxically, however, the very culture that made Lincoln an object of indifference, questioning, criticism, and even ridicule was a culture of unprecedented beneficence and inclusion, where racial, ethnic, and religious groups treated one another more fairly and justly than ever before. Thus, as the prestige of the Great Emancipator shrank, his legacy of equality continued to flourish. Drawing on a stunning range of sources—including films, cartoons, advertisements, surveys, shrine visitations, public commemorations, and more—Schwartz documents the decline of Lincoln’s public standing, asking throughout whether there is any path back from this post-heroic era. Can a new generation of Americans embrace again their epic past, including great leaders whom they know to be flawed? As the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial approaches, readers will discover here a stirring reminder that Lincoln, as a man, still has much to say to us—about our past, our present, and our possible futures.
The Kovels' Complete Antiques Price List
Author: Ralph M. KovelPublisher:
ISBN: 9780517516775
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Bulletin
Author: American Dahlia SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dahlias
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Florists Exchange and Horticultural Trade World
Author: The Era Price List
Author: Index to the Reports and Documents of the ... Congress ... with Numerical Lists and Schedule of Volumes
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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