America in the Forties

by Goldberg, Ronald Allen; Greene, John Robert

• ISBN13: 9780815632658
• ISBN10: 0815632657
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-30
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

In America in the Forties, Goldberg energetically argues that the decade of the 1940s was one of the most influential in American history: a period marked by war, sacrifice, and profound social changes. With superb detail, Goldberg traces the entire decade from the first stirrings of war in a nation consumed by the Great Depression to the conflicts with Europe and Japan to the start of the Cold War and the dawn of the atomic age. Richly drawn portraits of the period's charismatic, brilliant, and often controversial leaders-Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman-demonstrate their immense importance in shaping the era and, in turn, the course of American government, politics, and society. Goldberg chronicles U.S. heroic accomplishments during World War II and the early Cold War, showing how these military and diplomatic achievements helped lay the foundation for the country's current role in economic and military affairs worldwide.

Author Biography

Ronald Allen Goldberg is professor of history and chair of the History Department at Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Virginia. He is the author of America in the Twenties.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
A Prelude to War	p. 1
Life on the Home Front	p. 23
The War Against Germany	p. 47
War in the Pacific	p. 71
Postwar America: Prosperity and Problems	p. 94
Truman: The Embattled President	p. 114
The Rise of the Cold War	p. 137
Legacies	p. 160
Notes	p. 171
Selected Readings	p. 179
Bibliography	p. 187
Index	p. 191
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