Freedom from fear : the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945 / David M. Kennedy.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Oxford history of the United States ; v. 9.Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1952.Description: xviii, 936 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195038347 (alk. paper)
  • 9780195038347 (alk. paper)
  • 0195144031 (pbk.)
  • 9780195144031 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Freedom from fear.; Online version:: Freedom from fear.LOC classification:
  • E 173 .O94
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Awards:
  • Pulitzer Prize, History, 2000.
Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 859-871) and index.

"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.

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.

Pulitzer Prize, History, 2000.

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