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The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Oxford History of the United States
Oxford University Press
April 2001
992 pages ISBN: 0195144031 Trade Size (reprint)
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Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon
the American people: the Great Depression and World War II.
This book tells the story of how Americans endured, and
eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented
calamities. The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity. As
David Kennedy vividly demonstrates, the economic crisis of
the 1930s was far more than a simple reaction to the alleged
excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before 1929,
America's unbridled industrial revolution had gyrated
through repeated boom and bust cycles, wastefully consuming
capital and inflicting untold misery on city and countryside
alike.
Freedom From Fear explores how the nation agonized over its
role in World War II, how it fought the war, why the United
States won, and why the consequences of victory were
sometimes sweet, sometimes ironic. In a compelling
narrative, Kennedy analyzes the determinants of American
strategy, the
painful choices faced by commanders and statesmen, and the
agonies inflicted on the millions of ordinary Americans who
were compelled to swallow their fears and face battle as
best they could.
Both comprehensive and colorful, this account of the most
convulsive period in American history, excepting only the
Civil War, reveals a period that formed the crucible in
which modern America was formed.
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