Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression, Paperback - Robert Cohen

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

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a...

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Publisher: Scholastic Inc.Author(s): Mark TeagueNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 228 x 303 x 10Cover type: PaperbackIllustrator...

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...

Reducere. Hailed as one of the best books of 2009 by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, this vibrant portrait of 1930s culture masterfully explore...

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 ...

Reducere. Now a New York Times best seller If you could ask Pope Francis one question, what would it be? Children have questions and struggles just like adul...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than 50 years, Michael Grimm was both intrigued and bewildered by the mystery of his father's childhood--a dark period in the f...

In Dear Pope Francis, Pope Francis gives them that chance and celebrates their spiritual depth by directly answering questions from children around...

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. 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...

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...

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. One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and t...

From the bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird comes a sequel, Yours Cheerfully. An inspirational, funny and uplifting story of courage at the height...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nick K. AdamsWhat does a father write to his wife and young children when he's gone to war? Does he explain why he left the...

Reducere. In 1851, 12-year-old orphan Austin Ives joins a wagon train headed for California. As he makes his way across the country, Austin writes home to hi...

Using newly unearthed primary sources, this ground-breaking book examines the bitter and little known struggle in Hollywood and Washington D.C. dur...

Alcatraz Island was home to some of the nation's most notorious criminals. Prisoners include Al Capone, Mickey Cohen, James "Whitey" Bulger, George...

Reducere. In this timely new P.I. Guide, Murphy reveals the stark truth: free market failure didn't cause the Great Depression and the New Deal didn't cure i...

Reducere. This Library of America volume collects 367 letters written by Theodore Roosevelt between 1881 and 1919, as well as four of his most famous speeche...

Reducere. 'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean, ' wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance. Ro...

Reducere. For most of his life, James has stuttered. As a means of processing his story and accepting his stutter, James decided to write a series of open le...

Reducere. The first full-scale biography of John Hay since 1934: From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, Hay was an e...

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The central theme of Love Letters from World War Two is the story of Alan and Sheila Stevenson and their separation by war.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. I am Lady Portia. I anchor the flame of transformation on the planet to transmute the aspects that keep mankind bound to its illusions. Illusions t...

Reducere. The Roots of Violent Crime in America is criminologist Barry Latzer's comprehensive analysis of crimes of violence--including murder, assault, and ...

Reducere. It is in San Diego, the city of perpetual springtime, that newcomer Billy Considine puts aside guilt and the indecision of youth. Ahead are the sea...

Reducere. This is the HARDBACK version. LOUISE BROOKS and Jan Wahl had a special, roller-coaster relationship lasting twenty-odd years. He met the legendary ...

Reducere. I love every story in this book and can't wait to share it with my own daughter. - Sherry Coutu CBE Dear Female Founder is a personal, inspirationa...

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Reducere. The Wisdom of John Muir marries the best aspects of a Muir anthology with the best aspects of a Muir biography. The fact that it is neither, and ye...

Reducere. A unique, inside look at American childhood through the conversations between Highlights magazine and its young readers and a call to grown-ups to ...