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Pages: 362
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Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-17 - Publisher: New York Review of Books

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Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that t
The Man Who Never Died
Language: en
Pages: 649
Authors: William M. Adler
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-31 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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In 1914, Joe Hill was convicted of murder in Utah and sentenced to death by firing squad, igniting international controversy. Many believed Hill was innocent, c
Beyond the New Deal Order
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Gary Gerstle
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-29 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Ever since introducing the concept in the late 1980s, historians have been debating the origins, nature, scope, and limitations of the New Deal order—the comb
Labor Leaders in America
Language: en
Pages: 422
Authors: Melvyn Dubofsky
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Here are the life stories of the men and women who have led the labor movement in America from Reconstruction to recent times, from William H. Sylvis, the first
Built in Detroit
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Bob Morris
Categories: Business & Economics
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1935. In the middle of the Great Depression, after months of unemployment, Ken Morris found a job at the Briggs Manufacturing Company, the toughest auto company