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McKinley's Ghost & The Little Tin Truck - 127 (First edition)

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McKinley's Ghost & the Little Tin Truck tells the story of the Millers, a fictional family struggling among the real events of the early 20th century: the end of the Progressive Era, The Great War and influenza pandemic, prohibition, voting rights for women, the conservative take-over, the Red Scare, xenophobic hatred of immigrants and other "inferiors," lynching and race riots, union-busting, the elevation of "business" in government and the resulting unparalleled corruption, a wild stock market, spiraling income disparity, the Great Depression, national despair and the seeds of the next world war.

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Product Details
Guernica Editions
1771831391 / 9781771831390
eBook (EPUB)
813.6
01/08/2016
English
481 pages
127 x 203 mm
Copy: 20%; print: 20%