Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History, this book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in two unprecedented calamities: the Great Depression and World War II.
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Vann Woodward, The Oxford History of the United States blends social, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history into coherent and vividly written narrative.
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The Oxford History of the United States The Atlantic Monthly has praised The Oxford History of the United States as the most distinguished series in American historical scholarship, a series that synthesizes a generation\'s worth of historical inquiry and knowledge into one literally state-of-the-art book.
Both comprehensive and colorful, this account of the most convulsive period in American history, excepting only the Civil War, reveals a period that formed the crucible in which modern America was formed.
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 they could.
Freedom from Fear explores how the nation agonized over its role in World War II, how it fought the war, why the United States won, and why the consequences of victory were sometimes sweet, sometimes ironic.
For more than a century before 1929, America\'s unbridled industrial revolution had gyrated through repeated boom and bust cycles, wastefully consuming capital and inflicting untold misery on city and countryside alike.
As David Kennedy vividly demonstrates, the economic crisis of the 1930s was far more than a simple reaction to the alleged excesses of the 1920s.
The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity.
This book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities.
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. 21 maps. 65 halftones.
Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History, this book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in two unprecedented calamities: the Great Depression and World War II
