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  • American Splendor: Our Movie Year

    by Harvey Pekar ...
    From off the streets of Cleveland, the amazing and occasionally regrettable true-life adventures of Harvey Pekar, cineaste.Harvey Pekar is from Cleveland. This much you know. But with the release of American Splendor, the indie hit film based on his comic of the same name, the world discovered Harvey in earnest. Once Harvey was content merely to flirt with fame. But when fame wanted a commitment, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Yiddishkeit

    Jewish Vernacular & the New Land

    by Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle ...
    A "fascinating and enlightening" collection of comics and writings that explore the Yiddish language and the Jewish experience ( The Miami Herald).We hear words like nosh, schlep, and schmutz, but how did they come to pepper American English? In Yiddishkeit, Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle trace the far-reaching influences of Yiddish from medieval Europe to the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Macedonia

    What Does It Take to Stop a War?

    by Harvey Pekar, Heather Roberson ...
    “Pekar has proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life.”–The New York TimesFor years Heather Roberson, a passionate peace activist, has argued that war can always be avoided. But she has repeatedly faced counterarguments that fighting is an inescapable consequence of world conflicts. Indeed, Heather finds proving ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Huntington, West Virginia "On the Fly"

    by Harvey Pekar ...
    **With an appreciation by Anthony BourdainHAVE ATTITUDE, WILL TRAVEL**Harvey Pekar changed the face of comics when his American Splendor series replaced traditional slam-bang superhero action with slice-of-life tales of his own very ordinary existence in Cleveland, Ohio, as a file clerk, jazz-record collector, and philosophical curmudgeon. Much as Seinfeld famously transcended sitcom conventions ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Circus Parade

    by Tully ...
    A facsimile reprint of this classic tale of the seamier side of circus life“Jim Tully was one of the fine American novelists to emerge in the 1920s and ’30s. He gained this position with intelligence, sensitivity, and hard work. . . . No matter how crazily violent or fantastic his stories are, readers accept them as nonfiction. Tully makes the improbable seem true.”—from the foreword by Harvey ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • FDR and the New Deal For Beginners

    by Paul Buhle, Sabrina Jones, Harvey Pekar ...
    Series series For Beginners
    A profusely illustrated popularly-written volume with original comic art FDR and the New Deal For Beginners will shed new light upon a story now regaining visibility thanks to the recent economic crisis and prominent reformer President Obama in the White House.The history of the precedent-making FDR administration through the bitter economic depression with expansive programs empowering artists ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Book 1 - Roosevelt
    "A brilliant full-length portrait of Franklin Roosevelt the politician"—the first in an award-winning two-volume biography ( The Christian Science Monitor).Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in United States history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. But before his ascension to the presidency, FDR laid the groundwork for his ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Forgotten Man

    A New History of the Great Depression

    by Amity Shlaes ...
    Discover how bold government intervention and competing economic experiments prolonged the Great Depression for everyday Americans.In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Three Roosevelts

    Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America

    by James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn ...
    An "immensely interesting" account of how Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor led the United States through some of its most turbulent decades (David McCullough).The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who emerged from the closed society of New York's Knickerbocker elite to become the most prominent American ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Depression

    America 1929-1941

    by Robert S. McElvaine ...
    One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • New Deal or Raw Deal?

    How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America

    by Burton W. Folsom Jr. ...
    A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression -- and are still hurting America today.In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton W. Folsom exposes the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of epic proportions. With questionable moral character and a ... Read more

    $19.50 CAD

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  • Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

    The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    “Fear Itself deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions.”—David Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freedom from FearRedefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD