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1939: the two americas

…The social and political attitudes that had arisen out of the depression were stil firmly in control of the national mind. There were, as John Dos Passos had written, two Americas: the capitalistic one that saw the solution to its … Continue reading

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1939: few twinges of guilt

What was America like in 1939? In a way caught between the bark and the tree with the Depression still a traumatic memory and a World War on the horizon. The United States was on the threshold of a new … Continue reading

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