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Even as the New Deal was coping with the Depression, a new menace was developing abroad. Exploiting Germany's own economic burdens, Hitler reached out to the disaffected, turning their aimless discontent into loyal support for his Nazi Party. In Asia, Japan harbored imperial ambitions of its own. The same generation of Americans who battled the Depression eventually had to shoulder arms in another conflict that wreaked worldwide destruction, ushered in the nuclear age, and forever changed their way of life and their country's relationship to the rest of the world.

The American People in World War II--the second installment of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear--explains how the nation agonized over its role in the conflict, how it fought the war, why the United States emerged victorious, and why the consequences of victory were sometimes sweet, sometimes ironic. 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. The American People in World War II is a gripping narrative and an invaluable analysis of the trials and victories through which modern America was formed.

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While German dive-bombers screamed over Warsaw and German tanks crunched through the stubble of the freshly harvested grain fields in Polish Silesia, the world briefly and vainly held its breath, hoping against all reason that the war that had come at last might somehow not really have come at all.

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  • Title The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fear Part Two
  • Author David M. Kennedy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, NY USA
  • Publication date 2003-11-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195168938 / 0195168933
  • Weight 1.68 lbs (0.76 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.12 x 1.35 in (23.39 x 15.54 x 3.43 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Depressions - 1929 - United States, New Deal, 1933-1939
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003058491
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.91

About the author

David M. Kennedy is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. He is also the author of Over Here: The First World War and American Society, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, which won the Bancroft Prize. He lives in Stanford, California.
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