Nebraska during the New Deal : The Federal Writers' Project in the Cornhusker State [1 ed.] 9781496218001, 9781496215666

American Guides: The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture 9780226357973

In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate—and they were hungry for the written wo

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Creepy Nebraska: Ghosts, Monsters, UFOs and other Cornhusker Curiosities

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The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats 9780812206258

The Workfare State recounts the history of the evolving social contract for poor families from the New Deal to the prese

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The New Deal 9781439158951

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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The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats 0812247078, 9780812247077

In the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the United States suffered the most sustained and extensive wave of job destruction

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Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, The New Deal, And The Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia 9780300142198, 0300142196

Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. Th

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Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia 9780300142204

Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. Th

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The New Deal Lawyers 9780691219646

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

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Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America 9780374719050, 0374719055

An immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America, in the midst of the Grea

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New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State 9780822381143

Argues that the writers of the 30s and 40s--Hemingway, Ayn Rand, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright, Wallac

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