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Online Sources: The New Deal

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Primary Sources: The Great Depression and the 1930s
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Roosevelt, Eleanor

Book Sources: The New Deal

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American Home Front in World War II by Allison McNeill et al.
Call Number: Online - GVRL

ISBN: 9780787676087

Book 3 Primary Sources includes primary material from a variety of sources, including speeches, documents, etc.
Documentary History of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency by George McJimsey
Call Number: E806 .D614 2001

ISBN: 1556557809
Great Depression and New Deal Reference Library by Gale Research Staff
ISBN: 9780787665357

Publication Date: 2002-11-15
The Great Depression and the New Deal: Key Themes and Documents by CEO, Shannon L Kenny (Editor); James S. Olson; Mariah Gumpert
ISBN: 1440834628
The Great Depression and the New Deal (Guides to Historic Events) by Robert F. Himmelberg
ISBN: 0313299072
Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women's Letters during the Great Depression by Elna C. Green
ISBN: 1570036586
The New Deal; a Documentary History by William E. Leuchtenburg
The New Deal at Home and Abroad, 1929-1945 by Clarke A Chambers
On Our Way by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Recollections of the New Deal: When the People Mattered by Thomas H. Eliot
ISBN: 1555531342

"Thomas H. Eliot's engaging memoir evokes the political and social atmosphere of the capital in the New Deal era and details Eliot's own role as principal author of the Social Security Act. "
The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes (volume 1) by Harold L. Ickes
Call Number: E806.I17 S4 V.1

[v. 1] The first thousand days, 1933-1936

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