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"O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation's most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O'Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby-Face...

Richard Thomas plays the key role of John-Boy Walton, a youth on the verge of manhood during the Great Depression and a fledgling writer whose observations are filled with the growing-up lessons and love he receives from his family.

During the Depression era of the 1930s, Maggie grows up in logging camps and small towns of Oregon while living in the midst of a troubled family with an abusive father. Includes a reader's guide.

This book traces the Great Depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt's promise of a New Deal through speeches by Will Rogers, Henry A. Wallace, John L. Lewis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, and Harry F. Byrd.

To help his family during the Depression and avoid becoming a drunk like his father, Moss Trawnley joins the Civilian Conservation Corps, helps build a new camp near Monroe, Montana, and leads the other men in making the camp a success.

Produced at the behest of FDR as a means of supporting his controversial New Deal policies, these two films provide and accurate, eloquent record of the people and the land of the United States during the 1930s. Filmed by some of the industry's most talented craftsmen and accompanied by exquisite musical scores.

America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a gift for delivering exactly what America needed. Gypsy Rose Lee was an early vaudeville, stage and screen star .

Discusses the causes that led up to the Great Depression and how it affected not only the United States but other countries as well

Paradise on the Plains is a misnomer. The use of the word "paradise" is intended to be humorous. The era depicted in the book (1920-1946) was a difficult time for so many families living on the Great Plains. It was an era that illuminates the errors of homesteaders attempting to farm dry land in an area where the annual rainfall is less than sixteen inches. There is historical significance to the tale. There actually were a few, such as the main character,...

The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn.