The American People in World War II Freedom from Fear, Part Two

by Kennedy, David M.

• ISBN13: 9780195168938
• ISBN10: 0195168933
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 to the disaffected, turning their aimless discontent into loyal support for his Nazi Party. In Asia, Japan harbored imperial ambitions of itsown. 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. The American People in World War II--the second installment of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear--explains how the nation agonized over its role in the conflict, how it fought the war, why the United States emerged victorious, and why the consequences of victory were sometimessweet, 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 theycould. The American People in World War II is a gripping narrative and an invaluable analysis of the trials and victories through which modern America was formed.

Author Biography

David M. Kennedy is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. He is also the author of Over Here: The First World War and American Society, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, which won the Bancroft Prize. He lives in Stanford, California.

Table of Contents

Maps	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Editor's Introduction	p. xix
Abbreviated Titles Used in Citations	p. xxiii
The Agony of Neutrality	p. 1
To the Brink	p. 40
War in the Pacific	p. 91
Unready Ally, Uneasy Alliance	p. 140
The War of Machines	p. 190
The Struggle for a Second Front	p. 244
The Battle for Northwest Europe	p. 284
The Cauldron of the Home Front	p. 321
Endgame	p. 373
Epilogue: The World the War Made	p. 427
Bibliographical Essay	p. 435
Index	p. 447
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