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The Economic Basis. A talk given on the Ford Sunday Evening Hour. Number 11 of the 1939-40 Series broadcast over the Nation-Wide Network of the Columbia Broadcasting System from Detroit
by Cameron, William J.
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Detroit: Ford Motor Company, 1939. Ephemera. [4]p., wraps. 7.25 x 4.25 in. Very Good. Short text on Keynes. Item Price
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The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man
by Russell, William I.
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- 1907
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Jessup, MD: William I. Russell, 1907. Hardcover. 251, [5]p. + 10 leaves of plates, boards. 7.5 x 5.25 in. Second edition. Bound in publisher's red cloth, gilt stamped title on cover and spine. Rags to riches story. The author was a metals broker who lost it all in the crash of 1893. Item Price
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Abundance for all as proposed by the American Commonwealth Federation under "The American Commonwealth Plan.
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- 1936
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Washington, DC: American Commonwealth Federation, 1936. Pamphlet. 1 sheet (2 pages). 8.5 x 5.5 in. Horizontal fold, otherwise Very Good. Flier announcing a plan that provided every family guaranteed income. Promotes the pamphlet "American Commonwealth Plan" published in 1936. The American Commonwealth Plan was floated around the same time as the Townsend Plan and Social Security. Item Price
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Democracy and Finance
by Williams, Francis
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- 1932
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London: Labour Party, 1932. Pamphlet. 63, [1]p., wraps. 8.5 x 4.5 in. Edges toned. Minor tear to foot of front wrapper. Good. Tract on the relationship between financial and banking interests and democratic governance. Written in the wake of the coming of the Great Depression in England. Item Price
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Old Age From Clubs to Pensions
by Schick, Murray
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- 1935
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Salt Lake City: Murray Schick, 1935. Pamphlet. 22p., wraps. 9 x 6 in Covers a trifle worn; Very Good. Considers the possibilities and challenges to proposals to provide cash payments for the elderly. Published the same year as the Social Security Act, and makes numerous comparisons between a war economy and one where older people have greater purchasing power.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Great Slump; Capitalism in Crisis 1929-1933
by Rees, Goronwy
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- 1970
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New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1970. Hardcover. 310p., illustrated with numerous photoportraits of the political and economic elite, hardbound in openweave black cloth boards lettered white and bright yellow, and enclosed in the glossy black dust jacket. A very good copy: sound, clean and unmarked. Urbane judgments, sensible stuff. Item Price
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Spending to Save
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- 1936
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[Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1936. Pamphlet. 11, [1]p., wraps. 9 x 6 in. Edge wear, covers toned, otherwise Very Good. Text of a speech by FDR describing what he witnessed on his presidential tour of the drought-stricken midwestern USA. Item Price
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To forestall the imminent super-depression and Armageddon
by Shafer, Joseph E.
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- 1988
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Leucadia Press: The Depression Press, 1988. Hardcover. x, 180p., cloth boards in dust jacket, in very good condition. Item Price
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Where are we now? Present world crises in the light of prophecy
by Corbin, Bruce
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- 1938
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Guthrie, OK: Truth Publishing Company, 1938. Pamphlet. 62p., wraps. 8.5 x 5.75 in. Ink stamps of the U.S. State Department. Underscoring throughout. A traveling evangelical minister reads the world events on the cusp of World War 2 as a fulfillment of Biblical prophecies, especially with regard to the Second Coming of Christ. Item Price
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American Labor Party Handbook
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- 1937
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[New York]: American Labor Party, 1937. Paperback. 23, [1]p., wraps. 9 x 6 in. Good. Water stain to lower right corner of cover and textblock; edge wear. Second printing. Platform of the party for 1937, with a copy of its principles and by-laws. Item Price
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The political pot boils in the fire of economic unrest [handbill]
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- 1932
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[Buffalo, NY]: Workers' League, 1932. Handbill. 5.5x8.5 inch somewhat smudgily mimeographed handbill, year penned in lower right blank area, otherwise very good. "Is the Golden Goose of Capitalism being cooked in a brew of its own making?" Invites the reader to weekly meetings of the League. Item Price
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The Negro in Harlem. A Report on Social and Economic Conditions Responsible for the Outbreak of March 19, 1935
by Platt, Anthony M., facsimile. The Mayor's Commission on Conditions in Harlem, original
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Berkeley / New York City: Anthony M. Platt / The Mayor's Commission on Conditions in Harlem, 1970. Staplebound Wraps. Unpaginated preliminaries, 84p., printed rectos only, typewritten throughout (competently, without such niceties as right-margin justification), standard leaves under red coversheets, side-stapled. A couple of corner-tips and margins are a little creased, but a good to very good copy of a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Out of the frying pan
by Moore, Winston and Marian Moore
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- 1939
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Los Angeles: DeVorss & Co., Publishers, 1939. Hardcover. 185p., second printing, lacking dust jacket; bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, in very good condition. "A true history of the 'Ham and Eggs' movement... Item Price
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Women in action: North Dakota photographs
by Lazarus, Patricia
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- 1982
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npl: North Dakota Humanities Council, 1982. Pamphlet. [52p.], 8x7 inches; slight spine sunning, else very good. Item Price
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Blue Ridge Schooling; true tales of a depression year in the mountains of West Virginia
by Lawson Sr., Eric W.
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- 1999
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Canastoga, NY: Privately Published, 1999. Paperback. 98p., wraps a bit handled, else very good. Item Price
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Five photo-textual documentaries from The Great Depression
by Puckett, John Rogers
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- 1984
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Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984. Hardcover. xiv, 169p., boards faintly worn, else in very good condition. Studies on Jacob Riis, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, and more. Item Price
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The American Dream in the Great Depression
by Hearn, Charles R.
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- 1977
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Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. Hardcover. x, 222p., very good condition. No dust jacket. Contributions in American Studies, No. 28. Item Price
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Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression
by Argersinger, Jo Ann E.
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- 1988
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- 9780807817698
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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Hardcover. xix, 284p., illus., very good condition in like dust jacket. Item Price
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Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America
by Staub, Michael E.
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- 1994
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Hardcover. xi, 174p., very good condition in like dust jacket. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, No. 78. Item Price
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The people's road to prosperity: the 1929 Depression and its cure
by Gwinn, Russel
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- 1936
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Los Angeles: Wetzel Pub. Co, 1936. Paperback. 143p. paperback, covers mildly toned and edgeworn. Critique of capitalism in favor of cooperative industry. Item Price
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