San Antonio College Library

Beginning with Franklin Roosevelt's taking office in March of 1933, the author chronicles the most extraordinary period in American history--a time of depression, war, social and cultural upheaval, and incredible economic prosperity.He offers shrewd portraits of the nine presidents who seved over the 56 years. The final volume of Burns's classic history of the American Experiment, from the election of FDR to the final days of the Cold War "Crosswinds...

A "re-creation of the social, political, and economic texture of those times." "Includes birth of civil rights movement, first massive infusion of federal aid in social welfare system, total restructuring of our educational system, liberation of women into the labor force and a basic redistribution of income."

Discusses the factors contributing to the Great Depression and weighs the New Deal's successes and failures.

A renowned historian recounts how President Roosevelt inspired the country and changed forever the political, social, economic, and even the physical landscape of the United States--Cover.

The author accents personalities great and small, the major events of the era - the Depression, the New Deal, the coming war - and less prominent incidents as well.

Compiles a history of the Great Depression, including the events that led up to it and the New Deal that followed, with chronologies, personal narratives, and documents.

Relates the history of the Great Depression, describes the New Deal policies Roosevelt instituted to mitigate the poverty, and offers a chronology of events from the election of Herbert Hoover in 1928 to the U.S. entrance into World War II in 1941.

"Based upon Previously Secret KGB records, The Haunted Wood reveals for the first time the riveting story of Soviet espionage's "golden age" in the United States throughout the 1930s, World War II, and the early Cold War. Historian Allen Weinstein, author of Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, and Alexander Vassiliev, a former KGB agent-turned-journalist, were provided unique access to thousands of classified Soviet intelligence dispatches that documented...