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"From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, "the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,"* comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history. With the depth of a classic history and the drama of a thriller, 1929 unravels the greed, blind optimism, and human folly that led to an era-defining collapse-one with ripple effects that still shape our society today. In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable...
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1929 was the end of a golden age. Six aspiring writers spin tales set in a time in history when changes were afoot. While some sought the American Dream, others had to deal with vampiric siblings. Facing lost loves and gaining new freedoms define the beginning of a new age. Of course, the government was going through some changes itself in The Black Chamber, while everyday heroes could be confused with the Devil.
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Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and Collections
The year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the crises endured by other Jews became part of the transnational Jewish consciousness. In the United States, the stock market crash brought lasting economic,...
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What was it like to grow up during that Great Depression? Here is the autobiography of one such boy and his family. Began as a memoir written to preserve the history for future generations, it is a peek into life as it was. This book is great for others who lived through this time in history and would like to revisit that time and it is great for readers who would like to experience this simple time including its joys, sorrows, worry and triumphs....
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Eine faszinierende Zeitreise ins Jahr Babylon! 1929 – die wilden Zwanziger entfalten noch einmal ihre volle Blüte, doch schon werfen Blutmai, die instabile politische Lage der Weimarer Republik und die wachsenden Wahlerfolge der NSDAP düstere Schatten auf Frieden, Freiheit und Fortschritt. Mit Beginn der Weltwirtschaftskrise zeichnet sich ab, dass dieses Jahr ein letzter Tanz auf dem Vulkan ist ... Unda Hörner lädt ein zu einer faszinierenden...
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On March 31, 1929, seventy-seven men began an epic 3,554-mile footrace across America that pushed their bodies to the breaking point. Nicknamed the "Bunion Derby" by the press, this was the second and last of two trans-America footraces held in the late 1920s. The men averaged forty-six gut-busting miles a day during seventy-eight days of nonstop racing that took them from New York City to Los Angeles. Among this group, two brilliant runners, Johnny...
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A true story of how a 1929 quilt was found in the closet of Mary Cannon and Hamberlin. It was folded over a strong hanger along with 22 extra blocks, covered in plastic. It was sent to the only relative that the daughters thought might know who the women were who had made it.
The woman they sent it to was a converts to the church. She had done the family history of both her husband and herself. She had been to Kelsey and met some of the women....
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The Great Crash of 1929 profoundly disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The breakneck growth of 1920s America--with its boom in automobiles, electricity, credit lines, radio, and movies--certainly presaged a serious recession by the decade's end, but not a depression. The totality of the collapse shocked the nation, and its duration scarred generations to come. In this lucid and fast-paced account of...
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Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. In a single volume the author tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. He demonstrates that the economic crisis of the 1930s was more than a reaction to the excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before the Crash, America's unbridled industrial revolution had gyrated...
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The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of an overheated stock market and the financial disaster that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
A riveting living history about Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Captures the era, the intoxicating expectancy, the hope that ruled men's heart and minds before the bubble burst and the black despair of the decade that followed.
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"Step back in time and witness a turbulent time period for the Unites States: the Great Depression through World War II. The past will come to life with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Provided by the publisher.
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"Early Jazz is an overview of the beginnings of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots through 1929, when elements of the Swing Era began to emerge. It is the first book on early jazz history in over fifty years and fills a compelling need for an update that reflects recent research. With a broad definition of jazz that encompasses the artistic and the commercial, the book's inclusive tone allows for a wide spectrum of musicians, including not only...
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In the fifth installment of the riveting series, 'Shelby Morrow Journals, 1929-1935,' our heroine Shelby navigates dangerous waters in a Nazi-occupied world, her safety hanging by a thread. Befriending the enigmatic Franz, she faces betrayal and learns unexpected truths, her past resurfacing perilously.
This heart-stopping narrative opens with Shelby grappling with the aftermath of a deeply distressing decision, made in the hope that it will ensure...
20) Börsencrash 1929
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Der Börsencrash von 1929 ereignete sich zu einer Zeit, als die Länder boomten und sich die Wirtschaft entwickelte. Die Position der USA zu dieser Zeit blühte auf, als sie kurz nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg zu einer Supermacht wurden. Die Blütezeit war als brüllende zwanziger Jahre bekannt, als alle Wirtschaftssektoren boomten und der Absturz für die gesamte Bevölkerung ein Schock war Land und andere Länder, da
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