The Great Depression
R.G. Grant
Discusses the economic chaos that followed the 1929 stock market crash, including accounts of the Roosevelt Administration's social programs and the social disorder in Europe that fueled the rise of fascism.
Read Time: ~2.4 hr
Civil wars
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1994)
About this book
In Civil Wars, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Germany's most astute literary and political critic, chronicles the global changes taking place as the result of evolving notions of nationalism, loyalty, and community. Enzensberger sees similar forces at work around the world, from America's racial uprisings in Los Angeles to the outright carnage in the former Yugoslavia. He argues that previous approaches to class or generational conflict have failed us, and that we are now confronted with an "autism of violence": a tendency toward self-destruction and collective madness.--Publisher.
Setting / LocationCalifornia
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreCivil wars Lead Character
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