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The 1930s Revisited

August 14, 2017 | SuzyQ
1932 : the rise of Hitler and FDR ; two tales of politics, betrayal, and unlikely destiny by David Pietrusza
The politics of upheaval, 1935-1936 by Arthur M. Schlesinger
The embrace of unreason : France, 1914-1940 by Frederick Brown

A brilliant reconsideration of the events and the political, social, and religious movements that led to France's embrace of Fascism and anti-Semitism.

Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
A rabble of dead money : the Great Crash and the global depression: 1929-1939 by Charles R Morris
Burning the Reichstag : an investigation into the Third Reich's enduring mystery by Benjamin Carter Hett
Berlin diary : the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer
1938 : Hitler's gamble by Giles MacDonogh
Hell and good company : the Spanish Civil War and the world it made by Richard Rhodes
Swastika Nation : Fritz Kuhn and the rise and fall of the German-American Bund by Arnie Bernstein
Fascist voices : an intimate history of Mussolini's Italy by Christopher Duggan

Duggan explores "the cult of Il Duce," the religious dimensions of totalitarianism, and the extraordinarily intimate character of the relationship between Mussolini and millions of Italians.

Radio priest : Charles Coughlin, the father of hate radio by Donald I Warren
The coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 / 1933-1935, The Age of Roosevelt by Arthur M. Schlesinger
FDR and the new deal for beginners by Paul Buhle
On the eve : the Jews of Europe before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein
Kristallnacht 1938 by Alan E Steinweis
1939 : countdown to war by R. J Overy
Hitlerland : American eyewitnesses to the Nazis rise to power by Andrew Nagorski
Hard times : an illustrated oral history of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel
Why Hitler? : the genesis of the Nazi Reich by Samuel W Mitcham
Soul of a people : the WPA writer's project uncovers Depression America by David A. Taylor
The New Deal : a modern history by Michael A Hiltzik
The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl by Timothy Egan
The twilight years : Paris in the 1930s by William Wiser
Explaining Hitler : the search for the origins of his evil by Ron Rosenbaum
Mussolini by Jasper Godwin Ridley
Hitler, 1936-45 : nemesis by Ian Kershaw
The trial of Adolf Hitler : the Beer Hall Putsch and the rise of Nazi Germany by David King