An edition of Giants in their time: representative Americans from the Jazz Age to the Cold War
(2005)
Giants in their time
representative Americans from the Jazz Age to the Cold War
by Norman K. Risjord
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Giants in their time: representative Americans from the Jazz Age to the Cold War
2006, Rowman & Littlefield
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Giants in their time: representative Americans from the Jazz Age to the Cold War
2005, Rowman & Littlefield
in English
0742527840 9780742527843
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Table of Contents
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington : the Jazz Age
Aime Semple McPherson : Jazz Age religion
Samuel Insull and the great crash
Herbert Hoover and the crisis of American individualism
Harry Hopkins : quintessential New Dealer
John L. Lewis : labor hero and public villain
Mickey Mouse : laughter in hard times
Monica Sone, Richard Nishimoto, and Daniel K. Inoye : the Nisei Japanese experience
General George Marshall : duty bound
Rosie the riveter : four lives
J. Robert Oppenheimer : father of the atomic bomb.
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Includes index.
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