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Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In a major reassessment of modern conservatism, noted historian Kathryn S. Olmsted reexamines the explosive labor disputes in the agricultural fields of Depression-era California, the cauldron that inspired a generation of artists and writers and that triggered the intervention of FDR's New Deal. Right Out of California tells how this brief moment of upheaval terrified business leaders into rethinking their relationship to American politics--a narrative...
3) Sunset limited: the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
4) The exiles
Series
Publisher
Exclusively distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne, her husband Homer, and their Mexican acquaintance Tommy...
Author
Publisher
Zenith Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Explore the WWII history of the company that later became a part of Boeing and made more aircraft from 1938 to 1944 than any other company in the United States. This is a fascinating story of a remarkable time in aviation history, when American businesses helped fund the arsenal of democracy that helped defeat the Axis powers.Warbird Factory tells this story with over 200 photographs, many of which come directly from the NAA/Boeing archives, where...
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