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Great Depression
November 12, 2024
Scott Bradfield
The Woman Who Defined the Great Depression
John Steinbeck based “The Grapes of Wrath” on Sanora Babb’s notes. But she was writing her own American epic.
October 9, 2020
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Vivian Gornick
The Anti-Social Novelist
A celebrated chronicler of human suffering, John Steinbeck could not abide other people.
June 9, 2020
Andrew J. Bacevich
Will 2020 Finally Kill America’s War Fetish?
The U.S. has historically chosen war to address all kinds of problems: terror, drugs, unfriendly countries. This time is different.
May 12, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Al Capone, All-American Boogeyman
A new biopic reveals what the antihero of Prohibition can teach us today.
May 31, 2019
Samuel Miller McDonald
The Green New Deal Can’t Be Anything Like the New Deal
Climate change demands a much more ambitious plan than the Great Depression did. It even requires reversing some of FDR's successes.
March 16, 2018
Eileen Markey
What Happened to Irish America?
Irish Americans used to be progressive champions for the oppressed and the downtrodden. Now many of them are Trump voters.
February 11, 2014
David Thomson
Shirley Temple Sold the Idea That a Cute Kid Had the Cure for the Great Depression
April 18, 2013
Glen Weldon
A Superman for All Seasons
The Man of Steel is 75. His biography is our history.
April 2, 2013
Daniel D'Addario
Art Imitating Art
Why do so many novelists write about visual art?
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