Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression, Paperback - Christopher Knowlton

Reducere. Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s ...

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This is a collection of Ben Bernanke's essays on why the Great Depression was so devastating and lasted so long. The essays also show that while th...

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A history of aviation in Scotland in the 1920s and 1930s related through its airfields and landing grounds. All aspects of flying are covered inclu...

Reducere. On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freed...

Reducere. During the Great Depression, more than 250, 000 children left their homes and hopped freight trains crisscrossing the United States. They were look...

Reducere. Opening a window onto the little-known Japanese-American heritage of Florida, Yamato Colony is the true tale of a daring immigrant venture that lef...

Reducere. Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt used her newspaper...

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A highly readable history of the stock market crash of 1929, and the depression that followed itPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Selwy...

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Reducere. Did you know that the unemployment rate between 1933 and 1934 was one in four people?The stock market crash of 1929 didn't cause the Great Depressi...

Reducere. A captivating history of the Civil War in northeast Florida "Captures in rich detail the competition between the Confederates and Unionists, blacks...

In this poignant, hilarious and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood's most powerful woman, the mega-talented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scan...

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Publisher: Ebury PublishingAuthor(s): Alex RileyNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 199 x 34Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. In this second edition of The Great Fa ade, co-author Christopher A. Ferrara brings the original work up to date with six new chapters addressing w...

In 1934, Ludwig von Mises left his native Austria in fear of the Nazis, who seized all his papers in 1938 in Vienna and, Mises thought, destroyed t...

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Reducere. This work identifies an 18-year property cycle, recurring with remarkable regularity and similarity over the last 200 years, in different countries...

The methods developed by British intelligence in the early twentieth century continue to resonate today. Much like now, the intelligence activity o...

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Reducere. In a vulnerable but valiant debut, Christopher Ferreiras blurs the line between memory & myth, tragedy & triumph, recovery & healing, nostalgia & l...

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Reducere. DescriptionDid you know that the unemployment rate between 1933 and 1934 was one in four people? The stock market crash of 1929 didn

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This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

Reducere. I am that "sharecropper boy" and Upstate South Carolina represents "home" to me. This memoir covers the Great Depression and its effect on the poor...

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Young, talented, intelligent and with a thriving social life, on the surface Terri Cox had it all. But deep down in her mind a storm was brewing, a...

In 1931, John Logan, an English professor from the University of Kentucky, travels to eastern Kentucky in 1931. He teaches coal miners' children ho...

Reducere. "Admirers of FDR credit his New Deal with restoring the American economy after the disastrous contraction of 1929--33. Truth to tell-as Powell demo...