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Bibliography/Further Reading

1920-1945: The Countryside at Midcentury

Condon, Richard H. "Living in Two Worlds: Rural Maine in 1930." Maine Historical Society Quarterly 25 (Fall 1985): 58-87.

Eastman, Joel W. "From Declining Seaport to Liberty City: Portland During Depression and War." In Joseph E. Conforti, ed., Creating Portland: History and Place in Northern New England. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2005.

Eskew, Garnett Laidlaw. Cradle of Ships. New York: Putnam, 1958.

Gaffney, Thomas L. "A Study of Maine Elections, 1830-1936." M.A. thesis, University of Maine, 1968.

Judd, Richard W., Edwin A. Churchill, and Joel W. Eastman, eds. Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present. (Orono, Maine: University of Maine Press, 1995)

Lashbrook, Lawrence G. "Work Relief in Maine: The Administration and Programs of the WPA." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maine, 1977.

McCallum, Bradley, ed. Permanence of Memory: Maine Veterans and Civilians Remember World War II: a Public Work. Portland, Maine: Maine College of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, 1998.

Tardiff, Shirley A. "Maine Politics at the End of the Second New Deal." M.A. thesis, University of Maine, 1975.

Walker, Mark. Maine Roots: Growing up Poor in the Kennebec Valley. (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1994)

Webber, W. "An Evaluation of the Political History of the State of Maine (1930-1949)." M.A. thesis, University of Maine, 1952.