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    -- Nineteen sixties
    By Marcovitz, Hal
     c2013., Young Adult, ReferencePoint Press Call No: J HIST 973.92    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Understanding American historySummary Note: Examines events of the 1960s in the United States, discussing the Vietnam War, influential people, and how the young people of the era rallied against social conventionalism.
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    By Vance, J. D.
     [2016]., Adults, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: BIOG 305.562   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance's grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America.
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    By Kidder, Tracy
     1999., Adult, Random House Call No: BIOG 974.4 23   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A disparate group of individuals finds a common cause and a code of values that transforms their small Massachusetts town into a home.
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    By Stewart, Amy
     2021., Adults, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: FIC STE    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Kopp sisters novel   Volume: #7.Summary Note: "Life after the war takes an unexpected turn for the Kopp sisters, but soon enough, they are putting their unique detective skills to use in new and daring ways"--
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    By Ehrenreich, Barbara
     2002, c2001., Adult, Metropolitan/Owl Book Call No: SOC 305.5 69 092   Edition: 1st Owl Books ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Author Barbara Ehrenreich relates her experiences from 1998 to 2000, during which time joined the ranks of the working poor as a waitress, hotel housekeeper, cleaning woman, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart clerk to see for herself how America's "unskilled" workers are able to survive on only $6 or $7 an hour.
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    -- 1 summer
    By Bryson, Bill
     [2013]., Adult, Doubleday Call No: HIST 973.91   Edition: 1st United States ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Chronicles the sensational events of the summer of 1927, including the trans-Atlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh, the premier of the first "talking picture," and the beginning of Babe Ruth's home run record.
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    By Brown, Sandra, 1948-
     2009., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC BRO   Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In 1934, Ella Barron struggles to keep her Texas boardinghouse afloat despite the financial hardships her neighbors are facing, which leads her to rent a room to the soft-spoken David Rainwater, who shows Ella and her ten-year-old son the true meaning of trust and compassion.
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    By Haddix, Margaret Peterson
     1997, c1995., 5-8; 6.4, Aladdin Paperbacks Call No: Y HAD   Edition: 1st Aladdin Paperba    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
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    By Limbaugh, Rush H
     c1992., Adult, Pocket Books Call No: BIOG 306 .0973    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The radio talk-show host presents his views on the leading issues of the day.
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    By Campbell, Tracy, 1962-
     [2020]., Adults, Yale University Press Call No: HIST 973.9    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning to splinter from within. Exploring this precarious moment, Tracy Campbell paints a portrait of the deep social, economic, and political fault lines that pitted factions of citizens against each other in the post-Pearl Harbor era, even as the nation mobilized, government-aided industrial infrastructure blossomed, and parents sent their sons off to war. This captivating look at how American society responded to the greatest stress experienced since the Civil War reveals the various ways, both good and bad, that the trauma of 1942 forced Americans to redefine their relationship with democracy in ways that continue to affect us today.