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Apr 20, 2024 · 2014-06-10 Frederick Lewis Allen A “stimulating” account of the capitalists who changed America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, setting the stage for the 1929 crash and Great Depression (Kirkus Reviews). In the decades following the Civil War, America entered an era of unprecedented
Apr 11, 2024 · 1935 Frederick Lewis Allen The story of the immense fianacial and corporate expansion which took place in the United States between the depression of the eighteen-nineties and the crisis of the nineteen-thirties. Lords of Creation 1992 Timothy R. Sullivan Lords of the Earth
2 days ago · The similarities between them help form a solid general historiography of the 1920s. They both agree that Frederick Lewis Allen in his book, Only Yesterday, published in 1931, was the first to write about the 20s as its own historical period and define it as a historical period. They agree that is the interpretation most historians took of the ...
3 days ago · They’re arranged in alphabetical order by the authors’ last names. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed—How the gold standard caused the Great Depression. The Lords of Creation: The History of America’s 1 Percent by Frederick Lewis Allen—Why the Great Recession happened—and the Great Depression before it
Apr 10, 2024 · Good nonfiction books about history: World War II. American Heritage History of World War II by Steven E. Ambrose and C. L. Sulzberger— The best short history of World War II. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-44 by Rick Atkinson – Friendly fire and bumbling generals in WWII.
Apr 18, 2024 · Chamberlain’s just realized Hitler isn’t budging from Poland. But the 1939 September day in Freud’s London household is about to witness a war of another kind. C. S. Lewis has satirized Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress” with his “Pilgrim’s Regress,” and as a staunch advocate of Bunyan’s literary brilliance, Freud’s taken ...
Apr 19, 2024 · The collection contains letters sent to Allen regarding current affairs and, in particular, the Spanish Civil War, as well as letters regarding politics in the United States. Correspondents include Frederick Lewis Allen, Albert Camus, John Dos Passos, Allen Dulles, Martha Gelhorn, Archibald MacLeish and Eleanor Roosevelt.
