| Description |
xviii, 936 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Oxford history of the United States ; v. 9 |
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Oxford history of the United States ; v. 9.
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| 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.
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United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
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Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
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New Deal, 1933-1939.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0195144031 |
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9780195144031 |
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