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Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 497 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transformative concept of the federal government's role in Americans' lives. More than an economic recovery plan, it was a reordering of the political system that continues to define America to this day. With this book, writer Michael Hiltzik offers fresh insights into this inflection point in the American experience. He shows how Roosevelt,...
Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 179 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
FDR's New Deal so profoundly altered American social, economic, and political life that it qualifies as the nation's third revolutionary experience. In fact, the spirit of the New Deal and some of its specific concerns are still relevant and debated in American politics today.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Description
Examines the history of the Great Depression and details the New Deal programs designed to bring relief to the American people and the economy, highlighting the role of President Franklin Roosevelt and showing the impact of his policies on ordinary people.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
x, 464 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
An assessment of the political and physical dangers faced by the newly elected President Roosevelt in 1933 profiles such adversaries as would-be assassin Giuseppe Zangara and populist demagogues Huey Long and Charles Coughlin.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
x, 292 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
A memoir from a schoolteacher of growing up in the heart of the Midwest during the Great Depression describes life on an Iowa farm during a time of endless work, resourcefulness, no tolerance for idleness or waste, family, and kinship.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm
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Description
A portrait of America's first woman cabinet member describes how Frances Perkins worked to create new safety laws in the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and how her bold vision of inclusivity helped create the Social Security program.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Profiles Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and the first woman appointed to a presidential cabinet, who became involved in many aspects of the New Deal.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
512 pages ; cm
Description
An exploration of the New Deal era highlights the politicians and pundits of the time, many of whom advocated for questionable positions, including separation of the races and an American dictatorship.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
136 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
An exploration of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal that discusses the arts, finance, labor, legislation, its influence on the Great Depression, and other related topics. Counsels students on how to better understand present-day economic dilemmas against a backdrop of the Great Depression and the thirty-second president's famous "First 100 Days," evaluating key reforms in a variety of areas.
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