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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Kansas in the Great Depression	Peter Fearon	"Examines New Deal relief programs in Kansas throughout the Depression from the perspective of recipients, social workers, and poor commissioners. By focusing on the relationship among the local, sta…	OL10999520W
The Great Depression	Michael Burgan	Provides information on the history and effects that the Great Depression had on the United States people and the economy. Also explains President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal".	OL15037020W
The Great Depression	Don Nardo	Presents contrasting viewpoints about the best remedies for the economic crisis of the 1930's, the implementation of President Roosevelt's New Deal, and the historical impact of both the Depression a…	OL15072214W
The New Deal	Michael A. Hiltzik	Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transformative concept of the federal government's role in Americans' lives. More tha…	OL16183809W
The thousand-year flood	David Welky	How the Ohio River Valley flood of 1937 came about, what happened and how it was handled by various governments, private agencies, and individual citizens.	OL16307848W
The 1930s (1930-1939)	Michael Shally-Jensen, editor	Defining Documents offers a broad range of historical documents on important authors and subjects in American history, with primary source documents, in-depth analysis, and comprehensive lesson plans…	OL17099739W
Together We Cannot Fail	Terry Golway	This book is an uncommon portrait of Roosevelt's presidency, in words, photographs, and his own voice. For 12 tumultuous presidential years, Roosevelt regularly spoke to the American people, this man…	OL17371689W
Little heathens	Mildred Armstrong Kalish	A memoir from a schoolteacher of growing up in the heart of the Midwest during the Great Depression describes her close family life on an Iowa farm during a time of endless work and resourcefulness, …	OL17736349W
The people and the president	Lawrence W. Levine	"In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt began a series of Fireside Chats over the radio in which he shared his hopes and plans with the American people and invited them to "tell me your troubles."" "The …	OL18277502W
Great Depression and New Deal	Allison McNeill	Provides title, subject, and author access to the contents of a set of books about people and events in United States history during the years 1929 through 1939.	OL19163066W
Survival of corporatism during the New Deal era, 1933-1945	Robert F. Himmelberg	xvii, 413 p. : 24 cm	OL19217949W
The Great Depression	Steven Otfinoski	Presents information about the Great Depression that left millions of Americans without jobs, including how people struggled to make a living in a time of high unemployment and how the government tri…	OL19747267W
Freedom from fear	David M. Kennedy	Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prev…	OL1997094W
The forgotten man	Amity Shlaes	This imaginative illustrated edition brings to life one of the most devastating periods in our nation's history--the Great Depression--through the lives of American people, from politicians and worke…	OL19982184W
Dogma, depression, and the New Deal	Theodore Rosenof	xiii, 155 pages ; 23 cm	OL3278227W
The New Deal fine arts projects	Martin R. Kalfatovic	Complete bibliography of secondary materials as well as a large number of publications generated around the various New Deal arts projects (Public Works of Art Project, Federal Art Project, Treasury …	OL3940945W
Jim Farley's Story	James Aloysius Farley	Sub-titled, The Roosevelt Years, and limited thereby to that aspect of a life that has much of interest as a record of a small town clerk who made good as a big man in the Democratic Party. A good de…	OL4418470W
Redneck liberal	Chester M. Morgan	"Theodore Gilmore Bilbo was, is, and evermore shall be God or Satan. He dwelled -- dwells -- in heaven or hell, but never in limbo." So wrote A. Wigfall Green almost a quarter of a century ago, and s…	OL4975256W
Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee	Ann B. Irish	"During a congressional career that lasted nearly three decades, Joseph W. Byrns (1869-1936) exercised significant influence in Washington. He served as chairman of both the Democratic Congressional …	OL7795781W
Little heathens	Mildred Armstrong Kalish	I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct …	OL8383181W