Richard Rayner
The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist His scam was as simple as it was brazen. Before and during the Great Depression, Oscar Hartzell persuaded tens of thousands of Midwesterners to part with millions of dollars to ... [... more]
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Adele Robertson
The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir of a young woman's single-handed struggle to save her New England farm in the depths of the Great Depression. Recently discovered by the author's daughter, it tells the story of Adele ... [... more]
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Walter Cronkite
He has been called the most trusted man in America. His 60-year-long journalistic career has spanned the Great Depression, several wars, and the extraordinary changes that have engulfed our nation over the last two-thirds of the 20th century. ... [... more]
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Bruce Murkoff
Bruce Murkoff was born in 1953, spent many years in California and now lives in Stone Ridge, New York. When Filius Poe sets out for Boulder City, the country is in the grips of the Great Depression, the Hoover administration in its final days. ... [... more]
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Don Leslie
Nobel Prize® winning economist Paul Krugman shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 1999, Paul surveyed the economic crisis that had swept across ... [... more]
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Ray Ellenwood
First published in 1935, this novel is a penetrating study of a father and son caught in the moral and economic undertow of the Great Depression. The action hinges upon a sudden mischance in which accident and intention tragically coincide. Swept ... [... more]
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