Word: triborough
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Great Depression has a wonderful ability to seem both definitive and quirky at the same time. Episodes are organized around people and events that, at first glance, seem like mere sideshows: Oklahoma bank robber Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd, for instance, or the construction of New York City's Triborough Bridge. Yet each is skillfully woven into the larger picture: the glamourization of lawbreaking as economic hard times hit; New York City as a laboratory for the new relationship between Washington and local government. The people interviewed are not, by and large, major players but ordinary folks -- former sharecroppers, union organizers...