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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English Pages 400 Year 2021

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

From a rising star atThe New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley

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From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley

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Did you know— —that a New Jerseyan was the first president of the United States? —that New Jersey was the site of the

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

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In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two south

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We don’t want to be spied on; what happens when we’re faced with an operating system that spies on people? We throw it i

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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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