Journey Back In Time
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American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work
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Nick Taylor Details
In response to massive poverty, rampant unemployment, breadlines, and "Hooverville" shantytowns during the Great Depression, the Roosevelt administration initiated the Works Progress Administration under the leadership of Harry Hopkins as a means of putting people back to work and as a lynchpin of its New Deal program. This is a history of the WPA that describes its origins, the political controversies over its activities, its contributions to the national infrastructure and eventually to the war effort, and the cultural legacy of its arts programs.
London Rising: The Men Who Made Modern London
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Leo Hollis Details
The Great Fire of London in 1666 was the culmination of a series of disasters to hit the city. It had already survived civil war, plague and drought. When the ashes cooled, the city was in ruins. Hollis, a historian and author, traces the recreation of the city through the efforts of five very different men.
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
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Michael Dobbs Details
A reporter for The Washington Post, Dobbs sets out a minute-by-minute account of the 13 days in October 1962 when the U.S. and the Soviet Union were reported to be on the verge of unleashing nuclear weapons on each other because of Soviet missiles in Cuba. He combines the techniques of historian and journalist, and chose the moment when much archival material has become available, when many of the key players are still alive to talk and when most American alive today were not born yet and have never heard of the crisis.
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
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Drew Gilpin Faust Details
This book is an illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. The eminent historian Drew Gilpin Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and its understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Zookeeper's Wife
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Diane Ackerman Details
When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw -- and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into the empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants and refusing to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, even as Europe crumbled around her.
Updated 01/10/2012
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