Tobacco Road
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Unsentimentally realistic, this classic novel is a reflection of the effects of poverty on tenant...
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent...
A Concise History of the New Deal
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During the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal carried out a program of dramatic reform to...
The Fur Farms of Alaska: Two Centuries of History and a Forgotten Stampede
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After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose and fell for two centuries. It...
Flying Home and Other Stories
John Callahan and Ralph Ellison
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Raw, lyrical and blazing with intensity, these short stories are a potent distillation of the genius...
Hard Twisted
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Lucile Garrett is just thirteen when she meets Clint Palmer, a charismatic stranger who will forever...
Half-Time: The Glorious Summer of 1934
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Set against the backdrop of depression-era politics, 1934 was an annus mirabilis for English sport....
A Little History of Economics
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A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, consensus choice as one of three great presidents, led the American people...
Dancing in the Ring
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Detroit in the 1920s proved to be the Paris of the West for many – including Catherine McIntosh...
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