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Author Kennedy, David M.

Title Freedom from fear : the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945 / David M. Kennedy.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.

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 Axe Special Collections Rosen  973.91 K381f 2005    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xviii, 936 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series The Oxford history of the United States ; v. 9
Oxford history of the United States ; v. 9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 859-871) and index.
Contents The American People on the Eve of the Great Depression -- Panic -- The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover -- Interregnum -- The Hundred Days -- The Ordeal of the American People -- Chasing the Phantom of Recovery -- The Rumble of Discontent -- A Season for Reform -- Strike! -- The Ordeal of Franklin Roosevelt -- What the New Deal Did -- The Gathering Storm -- The Agony of Neutrality -- To the Brink -- War in the Pacific -- Unready Ally, Uneasy Alliance -- The War of Machines -- The Struggle for the Second Front -- Battle for Northwest Europe -- The Cauldron of the Home Front -- Endgame -- Epilogue: The World The War Made.
Summary Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History, this book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in two unprecedented calamities: the Great Depression and World War II.
Subject United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
ISBN 0195144031
9780195144031

 
    
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