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