Freedom from fear
Subtitle: the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945
By: David M. Kennedy.
Series: The Oxford history of the United States ;
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 936
ISBN-13: 9780195038347
Subjects: Depressions -- 1929 -- United States; New Deal, 1933-1939; World War, 1939-1945 -- United States; United States -- History -- 1919-1933; United States -- History -- 1933-1945
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 859-871) and index.
Table of contents: title: Editor's introduction; title: Prologue : November 11, 1918; title: The American people on the eve of the Great Depression; title: Panic; title: The ordeal of Herbert Hoover; title: Interregnum; title: The Hundred Days; title: The ordeal of the American people; title: Chasing the phantom of recovery; title: The rumble of discontent; title: A season for reform; title: Strike!; title: The ordeal of Franklin Roosevelt; title: What the New Deal did; title: The gathering storm; title: The agony of neutrality; title: To the brink; title: War in the Pacific; title: Unready ally, uneasy alliance; title: The war of machines; title: The struggle for a second front; title: The battle for Northwest Europe; title: The cauldron of the home front; title: Endgame; title: Epilogue : The world the war made; title: Bibliographical essay