Robert S McElvaine
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An award-winning historian reexamines the transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics.
If 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964-or rather, the long 1964, from JFK's assassination in November 1963 to mid-1965-was the time when the sixties truly arrived, when the United States began a radical shift toward a much more inclusive definition of "American," with a greater degree of equality...
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Down and Out in the Great Depression is a moving, revealing collection of letters by the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through one of the greatest periods of hardship in American history. Sifting through some 15,000 letters from government and private sources, Robert McElvaine has culled nearly 200 communications that best show the problems, thoughts, and emotions of ordinary people during this time.Unlike views of Depression life...
