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Alistair Cooke's America

by Alistair Cooke  · 1 Oct 2008  · 369pp  · 121,161 words

off the streets to build highways and plant ten million trees. He mobilized actors in a federal theater and, in the happiest inspiration of the Works Progress Administration, hired unemployed scholars, writers, and local historians to produce several hundred volumes of guidebooks to the states. He stopped the automatic production of groaning farm

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

by David Graeber  · 14 May 2018  · 385pp  · 123,168 words

colluded in featherbedding and overstaffing in the public sector or with government contractors, when they weren’t establishing self-conscious make-work programs like the Works Progress Administration (WPA), as the United States did at the height of the Great Depression. All of this was supposed to have ended with the collapse of

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

by Elizabeth Williamson  · 8 Mar 2022  · 574pp  · 148,233 words

the Travis County courthouse on Guadalupe Street, a grand, gray “Depression Moderne’’ building with elaborate justice-themed bas-relief friezes, completed in 1931 by the Works Progress Administration. In a dark stone entryway I met up with Mark Bankston, Bill Ogden, and Bankston’s parents, Don and Susan, who had come in from

Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider

by Weimar Gay  · 31 Dec 2001

a man could string out a year of intermittent jobs, he would be eligible for a state relief check or a federal job from the Works Progress Administration. If he got a WPA job, he could plant trees or pour concrete for new sidewalks. 289 When the war began, the Okies were ready

Frommer's San Diego 2011

by Mark Hiss  · 2 Jan 2007

. From this vantage point, you get a fine view of the: 2 County Administration Center This complex was built in 1936 with funds from the Works Progress Administration, and was dedicated in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 23-foot-high granite sculpture in front, Guardian of Water, was completed by Donal

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

by Bethany Moreton  · 15 May 2009  · 391pp  · 22,799 words

Mortgage Association, and the Export-Import Bank. Its loans fiÂ�nanced New Deal programs like the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Works Progress Administration. Torbjorn Sirevag, The Eclipse of the New Deal (New York: Garland, 1985), 79; Timmons, Jesse H. Jones, 279–82. Bethany E. Moreton, “The Soul of

Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook

by Cherie L. Weible and Karen L. Janke  · 15 Apr 2011  · 144pp  · 55,142 words

are familiar with bookmobiles, few know that in 1935, during the Great Depression, Kentucky’s Pack Horse Library Project was established as one of the Works Progress Administration’s programs in eastern Kentucky.7 To provide reading materials to rural communities of eastern Kentucky, librarians would ride horses or mules, walk, or even

Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice

by Alissa Hamilton  · 26 Apr 2010  · 243pp  · 69,667 words

. 6. Hodgson, “Horticultural Varieties of Citrus,” 454; Carita Doggett Corse, “The History of Citrus in Florida,” in Stories of Florida (Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration, 1938-1939), 4; Hamilton P. Traub and Ralph T. Robinson, “Improvement of Subtropical Fruit Crops: Citrus,” in The Yearbook of Agriculture 1937 (GPO, 1937), 749

$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

by Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer  · 31 Aug 2015  · 261pp  · 78,884 words

strong argument that government itself ought to create a substantially larger share of the jobs than it does now—jobs like those provided by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. Certainly, there is ample work to be done in our communities. The nation’s infrastructure is badly out-of-date in

, 57–59, 80, 89, 125, 157–58 workforce statistics, 124–27 work loading, 46, 61–62 work scheduling instability. See also just-in-time scheduling Works Progress Administration, 161 World Bank, xvi YouthBuild, 94 Zedlewski, Sheila, 26–27 zoning laws, 166 About the Authors KATHRYN J. EDIN, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology and

Parks Directory of the United States

by Darren L. Smith and Kay Gill  · 1 Jan 2004

beach, playground. Activities: Camping, hiking, boating, canoeing, fishing, swimming, water-skiing. Special Features: A stone cairn in the park commemorates the work accomplished by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) crews of the 1930s. ★3625★ North Dakota Forest Service 307 1st St E Bottineau, ND 58318 (701) 228-5422 - Phone (701) 228-5448 - Fax

, golf, basketball, tennis, football, soccer, baseball, softball. Special Features: Park’s stone grills, wooden pavilions, and walking trails were built in the late 1930s by Works Progress Administration. Chastain’s amphitheater hosts jazz, rock, and pop concerts during the summer. ★4806★ GRANT PARK 537 Park Ave SE Atlanta, GA 30312 Phone: 404-624

Cadillac Desert

by Marc Reisner  · 1 Jan 1986  · 898pp  · 253,177 words

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm  · 10 May 2010  · 491pp  · 131,769 words

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

by James Howard Kunstler  · 31 May 1993

Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

by Sharon Zukin  · 1 Dec 2009  · 415pp  · 119,277 words

Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees

by Patrick Dillon and Carl M. Cannon  · 2 Mar 2010  · 613pp  · 181,605 words

Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon

by Fodor's  · 17 Aug 2010

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by Fodor's  · 16 Aug 2010

Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

by Dan Bouk  · 22 Aug 2022  · 424pp  · 123,180 words

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by Virginia Eubanks  · 294pp  · 77,356 words

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by Thomas Frank  · 15 Mar 2016  · 316pp  · 87,486 words

Frommer's California 2009

by Matthew Poole, Harry Basch, Mark Hiss and Erika Lenkert  · 2 Jan 2009

Pity the Billionaire: The Unexpected Resurgence of the American Right

by Thomas Frank  · 16 Aug 2011  · 261pp  · 64,977 words

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by Edward L. Glaeser  · 1 Jan 2011  · 598pp  · 140,612 words

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by Sarah Kessler  · 11 Jun 2018  · 246pp  · 68,392 words

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by Sugrue, Thomas J.

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by Adam Tooze  · 31 Jul 2018  · 1,066pp  · 273,703 words

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by Arianna Huffington  · 7 Sep 2010  · 300pp  · 78,475 words

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by Benjamin Kunkel  · 11 Mar 2014  · 142pp  · 45,733 words

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by Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman  · 2 Jan 1980  · 376pp  · 118,542 words

Buffett

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by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin  · 8 Oct 2012  · 823pp  · 206,070 words

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by Peter Moskowitz  · 7 Mar 2017  · 288pp  · 83,690 words

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by Nancy Isenberg  · 20 Jun 2016  · 709pp  · 191,147 words

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by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan  · 15 Oct 2018  · 585pp  · 151,239 words

Frommer's California 2007

by Harry Basch, Mark Hiss, Erika Lenkert and Matthew Richard Poole  · 6 Dec 2006  · 769pp  · 397,677 words

A People's History of Poverty in America

by Stephen Pimpare  · 11 Nov 2008  · 468pp  · 123,823 words

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by Sasha Abramsky  · 15 Mar 2013  · 406pp  · 113,841 words

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by William Julius Wilson  · 1 Jan 1996  · 399pp  · 116,828 words

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by Amy Goldstein  · 17 Apr 2017  · 364pp  · 108,237 words

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Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator

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How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present

by Thomas J. Dilorenzo  · 9 Aug 2004  · 283pp  · 81,163 words

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by Alice Schroeder  · 1 Sep 2008  · 1,336pp  · 415,037 words

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by Caro, Robert A  · 14 Apr 1975

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