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Lost Decade: Growing up in the Great Depression
Lost Decade: Growing up in the Great Depression
Lost Decade: Growing up in the Great Depression
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Lost Decade: Growing up in the Great Depression

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, took office as President of the United States in March, 1932. Now with rapidly increasing unemployment, he generated a great passion that all would be rectified and happy days would be here again.

In 1939, the unemployment rate stood at nearly nineteen percent. Nothing would deter his popularity as he continued to win elections including a fourth term as President.
Germany invaded France late that year, and America began its Lend-Lease program for the European Allies and as the munitions factories and shipyards quickly accelerated and with the Army Draft, America's unemployment finally dropped.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateMay 23, 2018
ISBN9781984525680
Lost Decade: Growing up in the Great Depression
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Richard Balmert

Richard Balmert is a native of Maryland and a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University. After graduation and residing along the East Coast—in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York—he was drawn to the early history of the United States and the wide diversity of the old immigrant populations of Baltimore, Philadelphia, northern New Jersey, and New York City. Later, calling South Bend, Indiana; Fort Madison, Iowa; and Colorado Springs home provided the opportunity to observe the interests of a different, diverse population, piquing an interest in people in foreign lands that were immigrants here but who now call English their language and inculcating a desire to travel. Visiting almost every country in Europe produced a fervor for art, which always remains. As with his characters in his book, the urge to understand people expands, resulting in extended visits to Asia (China, India, Southeast Asia), Fiji Islands, Australia, and New Zealand. He finds the Middle East—from Turkey to Israel to Egypt to Morocco—especially fascinating because of its ancient history. Now having visited all fifty states and residing around our country, he discovered California, lecturing on art and history and becoming a docent at a museum of fine art in San Diego, where he now resides. Richard Balmert writes with an ease and intuitive understanding that appeals to a wide swath of readers. His book, Why Americans Speak English, is designed not as a boring history but as a fascinating study of human nature, tainted with wit, attraction of men to women, love, and the suffering and hardship experienced by those who travel far to find a better life in America. For Americans who never really learned their history, this new book ties together the threads to an understanding on how peoples could come together, throw off their allegiances to a former nationality, and produce a new nation with a common language—even if it took the fickle finger of fate.

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