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1) Democracy in America

Author

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Series

Classics of World Literature

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The Henry Reeve text (1945) as revised by Francis Bowen. Includes index. The Henry Reeve text as revised by Francis Bowen. Includes index and appendices

2) The great boom, 1950-2000: how a generation of Americans created the world's most prosperous society

Author

Sobel, Robert

Pub. Date

2000

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In The Great Boom, historian Robert Sobel tells the fascinating story of the last 50 years when American entrepreneurs, visionaries, and ordinary citizens transformed our depression and war-exhausted society into today's economic powerhouse. As America's G.I.s returned home from World War II, many of the nation's best minds predicted a new depression-yet exactly the opposite occurred. Jobs were plentiful in retooled factories swamped with orders...

3) In the new world; growing up with America, 1960-1984

Author

Wright, Lawrence

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4) The great American depression book of fun

Author

O'Dell, John

Pub. Date

c1981

5) Cultural Milestones of the 2000s

Author

Blohm, Craig E

Series

Decade of the 2000s

Pub. Date

c 2014

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Evolution is usually understood as a change in biological organisms over an extended period of time.

6) A nation of victims: the decay of the American character

Author

Sykes, Charles J

Pub. Date

1992

7) The Way We Never Were

Author

Coontz, Stephanie

Pub. Date

1992

8) The end of sanity: social and cultural madness in America

Author

Gross, Martin L

Pub. Date

1997

9) What women want

Author

Ireland, Patricia

Pub. Date

1996

10) Hard as the rock itself: place and identity in the American mining town

Author

Robertson, David

Pub. Date

2006

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The mining imaginary : place, identity, and the mining landscape -- Toluca : the Longwall mining district. A "rip-roaring" town. Mine closure and community survival. Miningś legacies. Saving the jumbos. Reclaiming the jumbos -- Cokedale : the Trinidad coal field. A model company town. The utopian myth. Mine closure and community survival. Life and landscape in the post-mining era. Preserving Cokedale -- Picher : the tri-state mining district. Landscape...