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-- All over but the shoutingBy Bragg, Rick1998., Vintage Books Call No: 921 BRAGG Edition: 1st Vintage ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author recalls his poverty-stricken youth in Alabama in the 1960s and 70s, focusing on the extraordinary efforts of his mother to protect her sons from the violence of their father, a man scarred by war, and telling of the sacrifices she made so her children could have a better life.
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[2017], Adolescent, Zest Books Call No: HI-INT 363.37 SEI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This book examines the events leading up to the fire, including a close look at how fashion and the desire for consumer goods---driven in part by the excess of the Gilded Age---created an unsustainable culture of greed.
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By Vance, J. D.[2016], Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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By Vance, J. D[2016]., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck"--Provided by publisher.
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By Vance, J. D.2018., Harper Call No: B VAN Edition: First Harper paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the middle class life and the demons of their past.
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c2006., Scholastic Nonfiction Call No: 331.7 63351 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents an overview of the history of the cotton industry in the United States, from colonial times to the mid-twentieth century.
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c2006., Juvenile, Scholastic Nonfiction Call No: 331.7 HOPKINSON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Traces the history of the cotton industry in America from colonial times to the middle of the twentieth century. Includes personal accounts and archival photographs.
