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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist brings together an oral history of the American Dust Bowl that devastated the Great Plains during the Great Depression, following several families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region and their desperate struggle to persevere despite the devastation.
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University of Nevada, Oral History Program
Pub. Date
[2003] ©2003
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English
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"From World War II to the early 1960s, Harolds Club was the largest casino in Nevada and probably the most widely known in the world. A Family Affair is the story of Harolds and the remarkable family that owned it. It is also a revealing chronicle of the gaming industry's colorful, vigorous, and sometimes 0utrageous youth. A semi-itinerant family of carnival game concessionaires named Smith founded Harolds Club in Reno in 1935, starting in a rented...
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The baseball oral history project volume 1
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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Presents Belarusans' personal accounts of what happened in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster and how their lives are still affected, discussing the deaths of loved ones, radiation levels where they live, children's illness, birth defects, and deception by the government.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
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English
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In this companion to the acclaimed television series "Eyes on the Prize", the authors draw on nearly 1,000 interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary people who took part in the struggle, to weave a fascinating narrative of the civil rights movement as told by the people who lived it.
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National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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This collection of stories of service from the home front and front lines will provoke memories and thoughtful reflection and truly celebrate the sacrifices made by the millions of veterans who have fought to defend America's freedom.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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A memoir from a schoolteacher of growing up in the heart of the Midwest during the Great Depression describes life on an Iowa farm during a time of endless work, resourcefulness, no tolerance for idleness or waste, family, and kinship.
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Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust? In The Boy: A Holocaust Story, the historian Dan Porat unpacks this split second that was immortalized on film and unravels the stories of the individuals--both Jews and Nazis--associated with it. The Boy presents the stories of three Nazi criminals,...
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and...
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2018]
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English
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In a rural settlement 20 miles or so from Tuskegee in east-central Alabama [they] found him - the man Theodore Rosengarten calls Nate Shaw - a black man, 84 years old, in full possession of every moment of his life and every facet of its meaning. Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven,...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1994
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IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 42
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English
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On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, Eisenhower biographer and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first time anywhere that the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944, had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired.
The true story of D-Day, as Ambrose relates it, is about the citizen soldiers - junior officers and enlisted men - taking the initiative to act on their own to break...
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Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Every hoax is a curtain, and behind it is a deceiver operating levers and smoke machines to make us see what is not there and miss what is. As P.T. Barnum knew, you can short-circuit critical thinking in any century by telling people what they want to hear. Most scams operate on a personal scale, but some have shaped the balance of world power, inspired explorers to sail uncharted seas, derailed scientific progress, or caused terrible massacres. A...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Here is the first anthology to present a full range of multilingual poetries from Latin America, covering over 500 years of a poetic tradition as varied, robust, and vividly imaginative as any in the world. Editors Cecilia Vicuna and Ernesto Livon-Grosman present a fresh and expansive selection of Latin American poetry, from the indigenous responses to the European conquest, through early feminist poetry of the 19th century, the early 20th century...
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