Featuring a fine-grained history of Chicago\'s working class, Postwar investigates what the aftermath of World War II meant to a broad swath of Americans and finds a working-class war liberalism-a conviction that the wartime state had taken things from people and that the Postwar era was about reclaiming those things with the state\'s help..
Featuring a fine-grained history of Chicago\'s working class, Postwar investigates what the aftermath of World War II meant to a broad swath of Americans and finds a working-class war liberalism-a conviction that the wartime state had taken things from people and that the Postwar era was about reclaiming those things with the state\'s help.