Giants in Their Time: Representative Americans from the Jazz Age to the Cold War

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 - Biography - 259 pages
In Giants in their Time, the latest volume in the Representative Americans Series, noted historian Norman K. Risjord uses biographical sketches to create a composite portrait of the United States during this dynamic and trying period. From sketches of Aimee Semple McPherson to Duke Ellington, Robert Oppenheimer to the Nisei Japanese, Risjord makes the past more vivid and concrete, revealing a heritage that present-day readers can feel and experience.

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Jazz Age Religion
27
Herbert Hoover and the Crisis of American Individualism
73
Quintessential New Dealer
97
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About the author (2006)

Norman K. Risjord is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he taught for over three decades.

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