A Books To Believe In's Top 10 List
Top 10 Best "1919" Books
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1919John Dos PassosBooks |
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1919 Misfortune's EndPaula Phelan1919 |
1919 Misfortune's End Two American families face a year of enormous significance, turmoil and change. The War to End All Wars was over. The Plague of 1918 had swept through urban areas with a vengeance, killing more than a million citizens and then mysteriously subsided. But instead of celebrating their survival through these excruciating times, four million workers went on strike, inflation hit 500%, and prohibition became law - unleashing the pestilence of organized crime. Good and bad times live side by side as people move from a simpler past through tumultuous times and reach out in search of a new future. The hope of carving out a new life motivates our characters who are enjoying early advancements in radio communication, entertainment and the inventions for the home. Although the characters did not know it at the time, the groundwork for the roaring 20s was being set with the casting off of old ideas, a devil may care attitude and a relaxing of social mores. The year 1919 is a reminder that things can always get worse, but through the vibrancy of the human spirit, things can get better too. |
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A Shattered PeaceDavid A. AndelmanBooks |
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U.S.A. John Dos Passos
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Dark TideStephen PuleoBooks |
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Paris 1919 Margaret MacMillan
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Making a New DealLizabeth CohenBooks |
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Bauhaus 1919-1933 Barry Bergdoll
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Defying DixieGlenda Elizabeth GilmoreBooks |
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The Twenty Years' Crisis 1919-1939 E. H. Carr
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The World on Fire “We are running a race with Bolshevism and the world is on fire.”—President Woodrow Wilson, 1919 While the Western leaders were hammering out a peace treaty in Paris to end the Great War, a new war had already begun. Bolshevism—the creed of the Russian Revolution—had burst on the scene in 1917 and seared itself into the world’s consciousness even faster than al-Qaeda would some eighty years later. The Allied powers tried to destroy it at its source by intervening, controversially and unsuccessfully, in the civil war in Russia. Elsewhere there were bloody revolutions and bloodier counterrevolutions in Germany, Hungary, and the Baltic States; massive strikes and civil unrest broke out in Britain, Western Europe, and in both North and South America. In the United States, a series of terrorist bombings created a wave of hysteria, later labeled the Great Red Scare, that threatened the very foundations of a free and democratic society. This book chronicles and examines the running battle with terror during the most revolutionary year since 1789. . |
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The World on FireAnthony Read1919 |
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Savage PeaceAnn HagedornBooks |
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