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1) The 1950s
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of the United States in the 1950s, including the effects of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, television, music, art, science, and technology.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Flappers, flag-pole sitting, and the Ford Model T--these are just a few of the things that instantly conjure up a unique era--the Roaring Twenties. It was the bees' knees, the cat's meow. If you're not familiar with 1920s slang, all the more reason to read this fascinating look at that wild, exciting decade. It began on the heels of one tragedy--the flu pandemic of 1918--and ended with another: the start of the Great Depression. But in between there...
7) Annie
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Annie, who lives at mean Miss Hannigan's orphanage, gets the chance for a new life when the very wealthy Daddy Warbucks invites her to stay at his home for Christmas then offers to adopt her.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An exhilarating portrait of the era of jazz, glamour, and gangsters. The glitter of 1920s America was seductive, from flappers and wild all-night parties to the birth of Hollywood and a glamorous gangster-led crime scene flourishing under Prohibition. But the period was also punctuated by momentous events--the political show trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, the huge Ku Klux Klan march down Washington DC's Pennsylvania Avenue--and it produced a dizzying...
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