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Tag Archives: The Great Depression
1932: Franklin and Adolf
I’m afraid 1932 won’t get much of a review because frankly, it exhausted me. It’s the story of two men who were rising to national leadership on their respective sides of the pond in the same year – two men … Continue reading
Posted in history, Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged 1930s, FDR, Germany, Herbert Hoover, history, Hitler, Nazi, Politics-CivicInterest, The Great Depression
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The Worst Hard Time
I first encountered the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in the same history book, and images of houses covered by drifts of dust and those of men standing in line looking for relief or work are forever twinned in … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1930s, American West, disaster, environmentalism, history, Texas, The Great Depression
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