BookGiants in their time : representative Americans from the Jazz Age to ...
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Main title
- Giants in their time : representative Americans from the Jazz Age to the Cold War / Norman K. Risjord.
Published/Created
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
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Description
- x, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN
- 0742527840 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0742527859 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LC classification
- CT220 .R57 2006
Contents
- Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington : the Jazz Age -- Aime Semple McPherson : Jazz Age religion -- Samuel Insull and the great crash -- Herbert Hoover and the crisis of American individualism -- Harry Hopkins : quintessential New Dealer -- John L. Lewis : labor hero and public villain -- Mickey Mouse : laughter in hard times -- Monica Sone, Richard Nishimoto, and Daniel K. Inoye : the Nisei Japanese experience -- General George C. Marshall : duty bound -- Rosie the riveter : four lives -- J. Robert Oppenheimer : father of the atomic bomb.
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Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
- Representative Americans
- Risjord, Norman K. Representative Americans.
LCCN
- 2005017389
Dewey class no.
- 920.073/09/04 B
Geographic area code
- n-us---
Other system no.
- (OCoLC)ocm61130638
Type of material
- Book
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- CT220 .R57 2006
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- Not Charged
CALL NUMBER
- CT220 .R57 2006
- Copy 2
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