Roger Biles Books
The fate of cities
By Roger Biles
This impressive treatise provides a telling critique of how in the long run the government turned a blind eye to the fate of the cities. No other work offers such a useful narrative of presidential...
Read MoreThe South and the New Deal
By Roger Biles
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president, the South was unmistakably the most disadvantaged part of the nation. The region's economy was the weakest, its educational level the lowest, a...
Read MoreMemphis in the Great Depression
By Roger Biles
Memphis proved largely immune to the forces unleashed during the 1930s. The Depression decade brought continuity, not modernizing change, to this thoroughly southern city. -- jacket
Read MoreCrusading liberal
By Roger Biles
"A lifelong crusader for society's powerless, Senator Paul Douglas championed reform and helped to bring civil rights issues to the forefront of mid-twentieth-century American politics. During his...
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