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Author
Language
English
Description
Hillbilly Elegy shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author who is a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
2) Amsterdam
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xiii, 338 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
An update of the author's financial survival guide takes into account the dramatic economic shifts that are reshaping America and provides insights and information to help survive the current economic downturn.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Where does innovation come from, and how does it spread through a society? And why do some eras see the fruits of innovation spread more democratically, and others, including our own, see the opposite? In Capitalism in America, Alan Greenspan distils a lifetime of grappling with these questions into a master reckoning with the decisive drivers of the US economy over the course of its history. In partnership with the journalist and historian Adrian...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2007
Physical Desc
16 sound discs (ca. 20 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The former Federal Reserve Board chairman reveals the financial close call that nearly resulted in an economic disaster after September 11, his efforts to safeguard American interests, and the personal and educational history that informed his choices.
Author
Language
English
Description
A history of the Erie Canal's construction and subsequent influence on American geography profiles the nation in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, demonstrating how the canal's creation impacted the industrial revolution and citing the contributions of such figures as Washington, Jefferson, and van Buren.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st US ed.
Physical Desc
371 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Journalist Peter Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to Zimbabwe, his broken homeland.
Godwin arrived as Robert Mugabe, the country's dictator for 30 years, has finally lost an election. Mugabe's tenure has left Zimbabwe with the world's highest rate of inflation and the shortest life span. Instead of conceding power, Mugabe launched...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Our Kids offers a groundbreaking examination of the American Dream in crisis--how and why opportunities for upward mobility are diminishing, jeopardizing the prospects of an ever larger segment of Americans.