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New Deal Muralists: Not in Harmony With Existing Conditions
Presents a discussion of New Deal muralists taken from "The New Deal for Artists" by Richard McKinzie. Contains information on Edward Bruce's Section of Fine Arts that worked from 1934 to 1943 on commissioning art. Describes public reactions to the art, which many considered frivolous during the economic emergency.
Sovereign Soldiers
In Sovereign Soldiers, historian Grant Madsen tells the story of military leaders who took on an unfamiliar and often untold policymaking role during the occupation of Germany and Japan after World War II, applying a range of economic ideas whose impact would endure throughout the prosperous 1950s, including in the United States itself.
Harry S. Truman
Biography of president Harry S. Truman, discussing his life, political career, and presidency.
A Perilous Progress
The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the "wealth of nations." It grew into a profession of immense public prestige--and now suffers a strangely withered public purpose. Michael Bernstein portrays a profession that has ended up repudiating the state that nurtured it, ignoring distributive justice, and disproportionately privileging private desires in the study of economic life. Intellectual introversion has robbed it, he contends, of the very public influence it coveted and cultivated for so long. With wit and irony he examines how a community of experts now identified with uncritical celebration of ''free market'' virtues was itself shap...
Military Review
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Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism
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