Freedom from Fear : the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
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Published
New York : Oxford University Press, [1999].
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
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973.91 KENNE
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Published
New York : Oxford University Press, [1999].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xviii, 936 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
UPC
9780195038347
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 859-871) and index.
Description
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. In a single volume the author tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. He demonstrates that the economic crisis of the 1930s was more than a reaction to the excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before the Crash, America's unbridled industrial revolution had gyrated through repeated boom and bust cycles, consuming capital and inflicting misery on city and countryside alike. Nor was the alleged prosperity of the 1920s as uniformly shared as legend portrays. Countless Americans eked out threadbare lives on the margins of national life. Roosevelt's New Deal wrenched opportunity from the trauma of the 1930s and created a lasting legacy of economic and social reform, but it was afflicted with shortcomings and contradictions as well. The author details the New Deal's problems and defeats, as well as its achievements. Yet, even as the New Deal was coping with the Depression, a new menace was developing abroad. Exploiting Germany's own economic burdens, Hitler reached out the disaffected, turning their aimless discontent into loyal support for the Nazi Party. In Asia, Japan harbored imperial ambitions of its own. The same generation of Americans who battled the Depression eventually had to shoulder arms in another conflict that wreaked worldwide destruction, ushered in the nuclear age, and forever changed their way of life and their country's relationship to the rest of the world. In the second installment of the chronicle, the author explains how the nation agonized over its role in the conflict, how it fought the war, and why the U.S. emerged victorious, and why the consequences of victory were sometimes sweet, sometimes ironic. The author analyses 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.
Awards
Pulitzer Prize, History, 2000.
Awards
Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 2000.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kennedy, D. M. (1999). Freedom from Fear: the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 . Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kennedy, David M.. 1999. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kennedy, David M.. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 Oxford University Press, 1999.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kennedy, David M.. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 Oxford University Press, 1999.
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