The Limits of Symbolic Reform
The Limits of Symbolic Reform

Author: Mark H. Leff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780521521246

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Mark Leff examines the gap between politics and economics, between symbol and substance in the New Deal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress

Author: William D. Pederson

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780765606228

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Examines the reactions of particular groups within Congress (including those of individual congressmen) to the changing role of the federal government during the New Deal era. Also examines facets of the New Deal era from a contemporary perspective.

Representing Texas
Representing Texas

Author: Ben R. Guttery

Publisher: Ben Guttery

Published: 2008-03-02

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1419678841

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Representing Texas is a compendium of biographies of the men and women who have represented the state in the United States and Confederate Congresses. These biographies include information about the representative's birth, education, marriages, family, experiences, profession, elections, congressional record, and death records including burial site. In addition to the biographies there are lists of U.S. Senators by succession, U.S. Representatives by district, Representatives and Senators to the Confederate Congresses, Confederate Congressional Districts by county, Confederate Congress session dates, U.S. Congress session dates, and U.S. Congressional Districts by county. A complete set of U.S. Senator election returns and U.S. Representative election returns from Texas completes the work. Also included is a bibliography. The work was completed following interviews with living ex-members of Congress and current, sitting members of Congress from Texas. The work is the only one to address the topic specific to Texas and is a valuable reference for any Texas library and any history or political researcher.

Franklin D Roosevelt Congress
Franklin D Roosevelt Congress

Author:

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published:

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780765641434

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Examines FDR and the New Deal era from the perspectives of social and cultural history, political science, popular culture, and political history.

We Were Going to Win, Or Die There
We Were Going to Win, Or Die There

Author: Roy H. Elrod

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1574417002

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In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. A few years later his unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal, where he commanded a platoon of 37 mm gunners. They endured Japanese attacks, malarial tropical weather, and starvation rations. His combat leadership earned him a Silver Star and a battlefield promotion. On D-Day at Tarawa his platoon waded their 37 mm cannons ashore, each weighing nearly 1,000 pounds, through half a mile of bullet-laced surf to get to an island where the killing never stopped. His was the only platoon to get its guns ashore and into action that first day. At Saipan, Elrod commanded a platoon of 75 mm halftracks, but he was riddled with shrapnel from an enemy artillery shell that took him out of the war. Fred H. Allison interviewed Elrod, drew upon wartime letters home, and provided annotations to the narrative of this young Marine infantry officer, a job that had an extremely low survival potential.