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WHILE ROME BURNS
Alexander Woollcott
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THE ROBBER BARONS
Matthew Josephson
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BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE
Peter Fleming
BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE
by Peter Fleming · Scribner
11 wks on list
The story of the author's search for Colonel Fawcett.
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THE NATIVE'S RETURN
Louis Adamic
THE NATIVE'S RETURN
by Louis Adamic · Harper
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Early in the spring of 1932, when I received a Guggenheim Fellowship requiring me to go to Europe for a year, I was thirty-three and had been in the United States for nineteen years. At fourteen--a son of peasants, with a touch of formal "city education"--I had emigrated to the United States from Carnoila, then a tiny Slovene province of Austria, now an even tinier part of a banovina in the new Yugoslav state. -- Pg. 3.
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I WENT TO PIT COLLEGE
Lauren Gilfillan
I WENT TO PIT COLLEGE
by Lauren Gilfillan · Viking Press
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"Fictionalized account of the author's experiences in the Pennsylvania coal mines." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation.
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LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY
Walter B. Pitkin
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