Freedom from fear : the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945 /
David M. Kennedy.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1952.
- xviii, 936 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- The Oxford history of the United States ; v. 9 .
- Oxford history of the United States ; v. 9. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 859-871) and index.
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 a Second Front -- The Battle for Northwest Europe -- The Cauldron of the Home Front -- Endgame -- Epilogue: The World the War Made.
"Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities."--Jacket.