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" Lessons from the Great Depression for dummies / "
Steve Wiegand.
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BL
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963218
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b717588
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Wiegand, Steve,1951-
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Lessons from the Great Depression for dummies /\ Steve Wiegand.
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Hoboken, NJ :: Wiley Pub., Inc.,, ©2009.
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For dummies
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xvi, 272 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0470487488
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: 9780470487488
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-256) and index.
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Machine derived contents note: Introduction. -- Part I: Heading into a Mess. -- Chapter 1: It Was a Dark and Stormy Decade. -- Chapter 2: Economic Basics: You Say?Depression,? I Say?Broke?. -- Chapter 3: Prelude to Disaster: The Economy Prior to 1929. -- Part II: Getting Depressed. -- Chapter 4: Going Bust: A Depression Is Born. -- Chapter 5: Coming Face to Face with Hard Times. -- Chapter 6: Troubles on the Farm. -- Chapter 7: Misery Loves Company: How the Rest of the World Fared. -- Part III: Living Through the Great Depression. -- Chapter 8: On the Road. -- Chapter 9: Demagogues and Desperadoes. -- Chapter 10: Having Fun in Spite of It All. -- Chapter 11: Labor Rising: Unions in the Great Depression. -- Part IV: Fixing Things. -- Chapter 12: A Tale of Two Presidents. -- Chapter 13: Roosevelt?s New Deal. -- Chapter 14: Lessons Learned from the Great Depression. -- Part V: The Part of Tens. -- Chapter 15: Ten Good Movies Made in or about the Great Depression. -- Chapter 16: Ten Things Invented or Popularized in the Great Depression. -- Chapter 17: Ten Not-So-Depressing Things about the Great Depression. -- Appendix: For Further Reading. -- Index.
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Depressions-- 1929-- United States.
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Depressions.
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Economic history.
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United States, Economic conditions, 1918-1945.
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United States, History, 1919-1933.
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United States, History, 1933-1945.
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United States.
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973.91/6
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E806.W4568 2009
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Lessons from the Great Depression
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