Nick Taylor

When FDR Put the Nation to Work

American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA

John Glenn

The first American astronaut to orbit the globe recalls a life testing the limits, from his days as a daredevil test pilot, to his terms in the U.S. Senate, to his most recent flight into space aboard the shuttle Discovery.

A Memoir

A definitive history of FDR's New Deal looks at the origins of the Works Progress Administration in the dark days of the Great Depression, examining the progress, people, politics, and development of the WPA from 1935 to 1943 and assessing the enduring influence of the controversial program and its legacy in terms of American social policy and the country's physical landscape. 75,000 first printing.

The Enduring Legacy of the WPA : when FDR Put the Nation to Work

American-made

William Davies

Martina Tazzioli

Sahil Jai Dutta

A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political–economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices. The dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic represented an exceptional interruption in the routines of work, financial markets, movement across borders and education. The policies introduced in response were said to be unprecedented—but the distribution of risks and rewards was anything but. While asset-owners, outsourcers, platforms and those in spacious homes prospered, others faced new hardships and dangers. Unprecedented? explores the events of 2020-21, as they afflicted the UK economy, as a means to grasp the underlying dynamics of contemporary capitalism, which are too often obscured from view. It traces the political and cultural contours of a "rentier nationalism," that was lurking prior to the pandemic, but was accelerated and illuminated by COVID-19. But it also pinpoints the contradictions and weaknesses of this capitalist model, and the new sources of opposition that it meets. An empirical, accessible and critical analysis of the COVID economy, Unprecedented? is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the political and economic turbulence of the pandemic’s first eighteen months.

How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy

Unprecedented?

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

The True Story of a Family Running from the Mob

Sins of the Father

Johan Muller

Penny Vinjevold

A systematic review of research projects into the state of education in South Africa.

Research and Systemic School Reform in South Africa

Getting Schools Working

If you’ve traveled the nation’s highways, flown into New York’s LaGuardia Airport, strolled San Antonio’s River Walk, or seen the Pacific Ocean from the Beach Chalet in San Francisco, you have experienced some part of the legacy of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)—one of the enduring cornerstones of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in March 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. Four years into the Great Depression, a staggering 13 million American workers were jobless and many millions more of their family members were equally in need. Desperation ruled the land. What people wanted were jobs, not handouts: the pride of earning a paycheck; and in 1935, after a variety of temporary relief measures, a permanent nationwide jobs program was created. This was the Works Progress Administration, and it would forever change the physical landscape and the social policies of the United States. The WPA lasted for eight years, spent $11 billion, employed 8½ million men and women, and gave the country not only a renewed spirit but a fresh face. Under its colorful head, Harry Hopkins, the agency’s remarkable accomplishment was to combine the urgency of putting people back to work with its vision of physically rebuilding America. Its workers laid roads, erected dams, bridges, tunnels, and airports. They stocked rivers, made toys, sewed clothes, served millions of hot school lunches. When disasters struck, they were there by the thousands to rescue the stranded. And all across the country the WPA’s arts programs performed concerts, staged plays, painted murals, delighted children with circuses, created invaluable guidebooks. Even today, more than sixty years after the WPA ceased to exist, there is almost no area in America that does not bear some visible mark of its presence. Politically controversial, the WPA was staffed by passionate believers and hated by conservatives; its critics called its projects make-work and wags said it stood for We Piddle Around. The contrary was true. We have only to look about us today to discover its lasting presence.

The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work

American-Made

If History is written by the victors then this is His-Story, as corrected by the losers. The Parable of His-Story is a telling of the age where men have been in charge. Inspired by ideas of feminism and spirituality, it suggests that eternal rules are temporary examples of a one sided story, repeatedly told to glorify the masculine and denigrate the feminine. Charting the origin of this story at the dawn of civilization, the book details how his-story spread across the world through successive masculine-driven empires and affected our ideas of sex, gender, sexuality and race. As the financial system crumbles, as religious and political ideologies grow more extreme and as more of us contribute to a collective consciousness through the Internet, The Parable offers suggestions as to what we need to remember in order to bring ourselves, and our relations with our planet, back into balance. If you've ever wondered why zero has been taught to mean nothing, why gay has come to be synonymous with rubbish, and why all the major monotheistic gods are blokes, then this book is for you.

The Parable of His-Story

Yaron Svoray

Beretning fra en israelsk journalist, som har infiltreret den tyske nynazistiske bevægelse i 1992-93.

An Israeli's Journey Inside Germany's Neo-Nazi Movement

In Hitler's Shadow

Harry A. Jacobs Jr

"My childhood was totally happy. Professor Guthrie made Proust come alive for me. There going down the hill was a beautiful blonde girl. I got my wings on July 29, 1943. I finally took a job at a retail stock brokerage. Its name was Bache and Company. Time with Marie and the kids convinced me that the ticket to sanity was go get away from the pressures of the job. Harold Bache raised holy hell. I was elected CEO on November 23, 1976. I was a little surprised the Prudential was lurking out there as a buyer. I was bereft after Marie died. Just like with Marie, I fell in love with Joanie instantly. I've been blessed to have not only a wonderful and loving family, but over the years a matchless collection of friends. I am lucky to have found the gift of prayer."

My Life in Flying, Skiing, Finance, Love and More

A Gentleman on Wall Street

Muriel Earhart Morrissey

A biography of Amelia Earhart, the famous female pilot who disappeared while flying to Howland Island.

Amelia Earhart

Sandy Linver

The Complete Guide to Speeches and Presentations that Work in Any Business Situation

Speak and Get Results

The first American astronaut to orbit the globe recalls a life testing the limits, from his days as a daredevil test pilot, to his terms in the U.S. Senate, to his most recent 1998 flight into space aboard the shuttle Discovery.

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