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The Greatest Generation

By: Brokaw, Tom

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1998

Edition: 7th Printing

Seller ID: 2306328

ISBN: 0375502025

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

7th printing. 1998 Hard Cover. xxx, 412 pp. In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to their stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all they had done. Ten years later, I returned to...
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Hopes and Ashes: The Birth of Modern Times, 1929-1939

By: Marquis, Alice Goldfarb

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, The Free Press: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2200268

ISBN: 0029202507

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Very good. Jacket toned. 1986 Hard Cover. xii, 274 pp. Modern American popular culture as we know it began to take shape in the 1930s with the emergence of radio, the coming of sound to movies, the birth of news magazines, and the growing appreciation of modern art. Marquis describes developments in these areas, as well as detailing the 1939 New York World's Fair, in this well-written, enjoyable book. The interaction of mass and elite culture is investigated, as are the cultural effects of the Depression and the European unrest in the course of the decade.
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Keyword:BIRTH OF MODERN TIMES AMERICAN HISTORY

The Greatest Generation

Hopes and Ashes: The Birth of Modern Times, 1929-1939

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