From a Raw Deal to a New Deal : African Americans 1929-1945 9780199762484, 9780195087710

Bank closings, soup kitchens, bread lines, unemployed workers begging for work--these images defined the 1930s and '

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From a Raw Deal to a New Deal : African Americans 1929-1945
9780199762484, 9780195087710

The US workforce, which has been one of the world's most productive and wealthiest, is undergoing an alarming trans

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The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comp

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The American Red Cross is an iconic institution whose long history includes both controversy and achievement. In dark sk

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This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and

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Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transf

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Conkin traces the development and implementation of this complex concept through the minds of many men and the struggles

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From the perspective of young lawyers in three key New Deal agencies, this book traces the path of crucial constitutiona

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"If you want to understand what it was like to be a New York New Dealer in the 1940s, then you must read Paul Milkm

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