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1) Amsterdam
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xiii, 338 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Hillbilly Elegy shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author who is a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
Author
Language
English
Description
A history of the Erie Canal's construction and subsequent influence on American geography profiles the nation in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, demonstrating how the canal's creation impacted the industrial revolution and citing the contributions of such figures as Washington, Jefferson, and van Buren.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st US ed.
Physical Desc
371 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Journalist Peter Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to Zimbabwe, his broken homeland.
Godwin arrived as Robert Mugabe, the country's dictator for 30 years, has finally lost an election. Mugabe's tenure has left Zimbabwe with the world's highest rate of inflation and the shortest life span. Instead of conceding power, Mugabe launched...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
299 pages : illustrations (some color), charts ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"We are only just beginning to reckon with our post-pandemic future. As political extremism intensifies, the great resignation affects businesses everywhere, and supply chain issues crush bottom lines, we're faced with daunting questions--is our democracy under threat? How will Big Tech change our lives? What does job security look like for me? America is on the brink of massive change--change that will disrupt the workings of our economy and drastically...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The decade of the 1920s was a good time to be an American; wealth and luxury were on the rise, culture and music was roarin', and the world was returning to normalcy following World War I. All this changed after the stock market crash of 1929 slammed the United States into the Great Depression, which would last more than a decade. This book covers the causes that led up to this event that affected, not only the United States, but many other countries....
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xviii, 348 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed author Eric Burns investigates the year of 1920, which was not only a crucial twelve-month period of its own, but one that foretold the future, foreshadowing the rest of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, whether it was Sacco and Vanzetti or the stock market crash that brought this era to a close.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Language
English
Description
"The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the rural Virginia coast with cameras and camouflage. Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. The arsonist seemed to target abandoned buildings, but local police...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First large print edition.
Physical Desc
x, 420 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The U.S. senator and former presidential candidate offers a progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and presents a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like.