Freedom from fear: the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945 9780195144031, 0195144031
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II.
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English Pages xviii, 936 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, maps; 24 cm Year 2001;2005
Table of 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 the Second Front --
Battle for Northwest Europe --
The Cauldron of the Home Front --
Endgame --
Epilogue: The World The War Made.
