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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kennedy, David M. Freedom from fear. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)605964651 Online version: Kennedy, David M. Freedom from fear. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607125108 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David M Kennedy |
| ISBN: | 0195038347 9780195038347 0195144031 9780195144031 |
| OCLC Number: | 40255850 |
| Awards: | Pulitzer Prize, History, 2000. |
| Description: | xviii, 936 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| 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 a Second Front -- The Battle for Northwest Europe -- The Cauldron of the Home Front -- Endgame -- Epilogue: The World the War Made. |
| Series Title: | Oxford history of the United States, v. 9. |
| Responsibility: | David M. Kennedy. |
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<br>"A grand historical synthesis...this is the kind of book prizes are made for."--Chicago Tribune<p><br>"This is modern America's story--modern America's most thrilling, most irresistible, and most significant story--and in this massive volume, David M. Kennedy makes it his story in a way that no one has before. Freedom From Fear, the fourth installment of the new Oxford History of the United States to appear, is as much a triumph as its predecessors, providing every indication that the series, once completed, will stand as the most comprehensive and most compelling narrative history of the nation." --Boston Globe<p><br>"Rarely does a work of historical synthesis combine such trenchant analysis and elegant writing as does Kennedy's spectacular contribution to the Oxford History of the United States. Kennedy uses a wide canvas to depict all aspects of the American political, social and economic experience from 1929 to 1945. He also provides a stunningly original reinterpretation of the competing forces and interests that combined to shape the New Deal under FDR's direction. The book's final 400 pages admirably demonstrate exactly how the U.S. emerged victorious in WWII.... Because of its scope, its insight and its purring narrative engine, Kennedy's book will stand for years to come as the definitive history of the most important decades of the American Century." --Publishers Weekly<p><br>"An engrossing narrative of a momentous time. The best one-volume account of the Roosevelt era currently available.... Good old-fashioned history."-- The New York Times Book Review<p><br>"An indispensable account of the two great formative events of 20th century American history--the Great Depression and the second World War."--The Economist<p><br>"The book...has my strong approval. As it will have, I cannot doubt, that of the many readers it deserves."--John C. Gilbraith, The Washington Monthly<p><br>"An invaluable compendium of the hyperactive period that contains the Great depr Read more...
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- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 1919-1933.
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