A History of US Book 9: War, Peace, and All That Jazz 1918-1945

by Hakim, Joy

• ISBN13: 9780195153354
• ISBN10: 0195153359
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong'sjazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from the finale ofone world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazzpresents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history. With theend of World War I, many Americans decided to live it up, going to movies,driving cars, and cheering baseball games a plenty. But alongside this post-WWIspree was high unemployment, hard times for farmers, ever-present racism, and,finally, the Depression, the worst economic disaster in U.S. history,flip-flopping the nation from prosperity to scarcity. Along came one of ourcountry's greatest leaders, F.D.R., who promised a New Deal, gave Americanshope, and then saw them through the horrors and victories of World War II. Thesethree decades--full of optimism and despair, progress and Depression, and, ofcourse, War, Peace, and All That Jazz--forever changed the United States.