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c2006., Crown Publishers Call No: 813.52 Z48f Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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c2007., HarperCollins Publishers Call No: 973.91 S558f Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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 it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through brave leadership they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation. Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they discovered their errors. She shows how both Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s and heaped massive burdens on the country that more than offset the benefit of New Deal programs. The real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it--it is why it lasted so long.--From publisher description.
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By Leary, Ann2022., Marysue Rucci Books, Scribner Call No: Fic Lea Edition: Marysue Rucci Books. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1927, when eighteen-year-old Mary Engle, while working at an institution for mentally disabled women, learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is an inmate, who begs Mary to help her escape, it forces Mary to make a terrible choice with life-altering consquences.
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2003, p1990., Adult, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Miller's Edition: Widescreen edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The control of the gangster-political boss of an eastern city is slipping. The situation is complicated by a woman. Both the boss and his trusted lieutenant are in love with her.
![Miller's crossing [DVD] (1990). Directed by Joel Coen.](/Library/images/~imageCT84734.JPG "Miller's crossing [DVD] (1990). Directed by Joel Coen.")
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By Bryson, Billc2013., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: 973.91 B916o Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest of the time), a semi-crazed sculptor with a mad plan to carve four giant heads into an inaccessible mountain called Rushmore, a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial and a youthful aviator named Charles Lindbergh who started the summer wholly unknown and finished it as the most famous man on earth (so famous that Minnesota consider renaming itself after him). It was the summer that saw the birth of talking pictures, the invention of television, the peak of Al Capone's reign of terror, the horrifying bombing of a school in Michigan by a madman, the ill-conceived decision that led the Great Depression, the thrillingly improbable return to greatness of a wheezing, over-the-hill baseball player named Babe Ruth and an almost impossible amount more. In this hugely entertaining book, Bill Bryson spins a story of brawling adventure, reckless optimism and delirious energy. With the trademark brio, wit and authority that have made him our favorite writer of narrative non-fiction, he rolls out an unforgettable cast of vivid and eccentric personalities to bring to life a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre stage and changed the world forever."--Jacket.
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1966., Doubleday Call No: 973.9 D186t Edition: [1st ed.] Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Mainstream of America series