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"One of the great American novels-and one of America's most popular-featuring a new foreword by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko Jay Gatsby seemingly has everything. Everybody who's anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his West Egg, Long Island, mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing, and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby--young, handsome, fabulously rich--always seems...
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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...
9) Daily Life
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Rourke Publications
Pub. Date
c1994
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English
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Includes bibliographical references over the daily lives of indians. How they hunt, gather fruits and vegetables, make clothing, and the daily differences among the Native American tribes.
10) Dust bowl diary
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University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c1984
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English
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The author recounts her experiences growing up in North Dakota from 1928 to 1937 the years of the Dust bowl and Depression.