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Rethinking the Great DepressionA Southern ExposureFor the Survival of DemocracyHidden PlacesMy American CenturyThe Wettest County in the WorldThe Great Depression and the New Deal


Fiction

A Southern Exposure
A Southern Exposure
Alice Adams
(FIC ADAMS)

Hidden Places
Hidden Places
Lynn Austin
(FIC AUSTIN)

The Wettest County in the World
The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story
Matt Bondurant
(FIC BONDURANT)

Thirteen Uncollected Stories
Thirteen Uncollected Stories By John Cheever
John Cheever
(FIC CHEEVER)

Bucking the Sun
Bucking the Sun: A Novel
Ivan Doig
(FIC DOIG)

Empire Rising
Empire Rising
Thomas Kelly
(FIC KELLY)

The Lost Mother
The Lost Mother
Mary McGarry Morris
(FIC MORRIS)

Waterborne
Waterborne: A Novel
Bruce Murkoff
(FIC MURKOFF)

Heir to the Glimmgering World
Heir to the Glimmering World
Cynthia Ozick
(FIC OZICK)

Kings in Disguise
Kings in Disguise
James Vance
(741.5973 VANCE)
(GRAPHIC NOVEL) 

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Nonfiction

Rethinking the Great Depression
Rethinking the Great Depression: A New View of Its Causes and Consequences
Gene Smiley
(330.973 SMILEY)

For the Survival of Democracy
For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s
Alonzo L. Hamby
(909.823 HAMBY)

My American Century
My American Century
Studs Terkel
(973.0922 TERKEL)

The Great Depression and the New Deal
The Great Depression and the New Deal
Kevil Hillstrom
(973.91 HILLSTROM)

Daily Life in the United States
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the 'Roaring Twenties' and the Great Depression
David E. Kyvig
(973.91 KYVIG)

Anxious Decades
Anxious Decades: American In Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941
Michael E. Parrish
(973.91 PARRISH)

Hard Times
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Studs Terkel
(973.91 TERKEL)

The Forgotten Man
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Amity Shlaes
(973.916 SHLAES)

Riding the Rails
Riding the Rails: Teenagers On the Move During the Great Depression
Errol Lincoln Uys
(973.916 UYS)

Nothing To Fear
Nothing To Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days that Created Modern America
Adam Cohen
(973.917 COHEN)

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression
David A. Taylor
(973.917 DEAR)

Dealers and Dreamers
Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal
Joseph P. Lash
(973.917 LASH)

The People and the President
The People and the President: America's Conversation with FDR
Lawrence W. Levine
(973.917 LEVINE)

The Politics of Upheaval
The Politics of Upheaval
Arthur Meier Schlesinger
(973.917 SCHLESINGER)

The Soul of a People
The Soul of a People
David A. Taylor
(973.917 TAYLOR)

The Great Depression
The Great Depression: America in the 1930s
T. H. Watkins
(973.917 WATKINS)

The Great Depression In America
The Great Depression In America: A Cultural Encyclopedia
William H. Young
(Reference: 973.91 YOUNG
Volumes 1 & 2)

Bound For Glory
Bound For Glory
Annette Curtis Klause
(Oversize 779.9973 BOUND)

The Great Depression
The Great Depression
David F. Burg
(Oversize 973.91 BURG)

Hard Times, the 30s
Hard Times, the 30s
Time Life Books
(Oversize 973.917 HARD)

The Defining Moment
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
Jonathan Alter
(BIO ROOSEVELT)

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Videos

Breadline, 1929
Breadline, 1929
David Espar
(VHS 909.82 PEOPLES)

New Deal/New York
New Deal/New York
Dante J. James
(VHS 973.91 GREAT VOL 3 OF 7)

We Have a Plan
We Have a Plan
Lyn Goldfard
(VHS 973.91 GREAT VOL 4 OF 7)

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