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The Great Depression in America : a cultural encyclopedia
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The Great Depression in America : a cultural encyclopedia

Author: William H Young; Nancy K Young
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: William H Young; Nancy K Young
ISBN: 0313335206 9780313335204 0313335214 9780313335211 0313335222 9780313335228
OCLC Number: 77485831
Description: 2 v. (xxviii, 668 p.) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Contents: v. 1: A-M: Advertising -- Airships -- Alcoholic beverages -- Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) -- American Gothic -- Amos 'n' Andy -- Apple Mary -- Architecture -- Art deco -- Astaire, Fred & Ginger Rogers -- Auto camps -- Automobiles -- Aviation -- Baseball -- Basie, Count -- Basketball -- Berlin, Irving -- Best sellers (Books) -- Big little books -- Blondie - Book clubs -- Bowling -- Boxing -- "Brother, can you spare a dime?" -- Caldwell, Erskine -- Candy -- Carter Family, The -- Century of Progress Exposition (Chicago World's Fair) -- Children's films -- China clippers -- Chrysler Building, The -- Circuses -- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) -- Coffee & tea -- Columbo, Ross -- Comic books -- Comic strips -- Contract bridge -- Crime -- Crosby, Bing -- Design -- Desserts -- Dick Tracy -- Dionne Quintuplets -- Disney, Walt -- Douglas DC-3 -- Dracula -- Earhart, Amelia -- Education -- Ellington, Duke -- Empire State Building, The -- Fads -- Fairs & Expositions -- Fashion -- Federal Arts Project (FAP) -- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) -- Federal Music Project (FMP) -- Federal Theatre Project (FTP) -- Federal Writers' Project (FWP) -- Fields, Dorothy -- Flash Gordon -- Food -- Football -- 42nd Street -- Frankenstein -- Frozen foods -- Games -- Gangster films -- Gardner, Erle Stanley -- Garland, Judy -- Gas stations -- Gershwin, George & Ira Gershwin -- Golf -- Gone with the Wind (Novel & movie) -- Goodman, Benny -- Grand Ole Opry -- Grapes of Wrath, The (Novel & movie) -- Grocery stores & supermarkets -- Gumps, The -- Guthrie, Woody -- Henderson, Fletcher -- Hillbillies -- Hobbies -- Hollywood Production Code -- Hoover, Herbert -- Hopper, Edward -- Horror & fantasy films -- Horse racing -- Hotels -- Ice cream -- Ice skating & hockey -- Illustrations -- International style -- It Happened One Night -- Jazz -- Jigsaw puzzles -- Jitterbug -- Jukeboxes -- Kern, Jerome -- King Kong -- Leisure & recreation -- Marathon dancing -- March of Time, The (Radio & film) -- Marsh, Reginald -- Marx Brothers, The -- Miller, Glenn -- Miniature golf -- Monopoly -- Moses, Robert -- Motels -- Motorsports -- Movies -- Music -- Musicals (Stage & screen) -- Mysteries & hard-boiled detectives (Print & film) -- v. 2: N-Z: National Barn Dance, The -- New Deal -- Newspapers -- New York World's Fair -- Olympic games -- Operettas -- Photography -- Political parties -- Polo -- Porgy & Bess -- Porter, Cole -- Prince Valiant -- Prohibition & repeal (1920-1933) -- Propaganda & anti-Axis films -- Pulp magazines -- Race relations & stereotyping -- Radio - Radio networks -- Reader's Digest -- Recordings -- Regionalism -- Religion -- Restaurants -- Robeson, Paul -- Rockefeller Center (Radio City) -- Rockwell, Norman -- Rodgers & Hart (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart) -- Roller skating -- Roosevelt, Eleanor -- Roosevelt. Franklin Delano -- Saturday Evening Post -- Screwball comedies -- Sculpture -- Seabiscuit -- Serials (Radio & movies) -- Sheeler, Charles -- Sheet music -- Sinatra, Frank -- Singing cowboys -- Skiing -- Smith, Kate -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Soap operas -- Social consciousness films -- Social realism -- Softball -- Soft drinks -- Songwriters & lyricists -- Spectacle & costume drama films -- Stage productions (Drama) -- Stamp collecting -- Steamlining -- Superman -- Swimming -- Swing -- Tarzan -- Teenage & juvenile delinquency films -- Television -- Temple, Shirley -- Tennis -- Terry and the Pirates -- Toys -- Trailers -- Trains -- Transportation --Travel -- Valley, Rudy -- Welles, Orson -- Western films -- Winchell, Walter -- Wizard of Oz, The -- Wood, Grant -- Wright, Frank Lloyd -- Wyeth, N.C. -- Your Hit Parade --Youth
Responsibility: William H. Young and Nancy K. Young.
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