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Building Hoover Dam: An oral history of the Great Depression (1993)

Dunar, Andrew J. (Author)
McBride, Dennis K. (Author)

Twayne

Publication Date: 1993
Physical Details: xix + 350 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Smith, K.L. (1995) Review of "Building Hoover Dam: An oral history of the Great Depression". Technology and Culture (pp. 422-23). unapi

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