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Nothin' but blue skies : the heyday, hard times, and hopes of America's industrial heartland
Title:
Nothin' but blue skies : the heyday, hard times, and hopes of America's industrial heartland
Author:
McClelland, Ted.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
343 pages ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Gus's Bar -- The sit-down striker -- The arsenal of democracy -- The Motor City is burning -- Burn on, big river -- I'm a Flintoid -- "A rust bowl" -- Homestead -- New Jack cities -- The smell of money -- "We're all going to end up in Chicago" -- "Nature always bats last" -- Lackawanna blues -- The second great recession -- The corner of Palmer and Jesus saves -- Flintstones -- "This is not your father's Oldsmobile."
ISBN:
9781608195299
Format :
Book