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Freedom From Fear

David M. Kennedy

How did Americans pass through the Depression and the Second World War, and what world did those years leave behind?

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Author
David M. Kennedy

Why read it

  • You will see how the end of the First World War set the stage for two more decades of tension
  • You will understand the Depression and the war as one connected story, from Hoover's ordeal to the world the war made
  • You will learn what the New Deal actually did, and why recovery stayed a phantom the country kept chasing

Who it is for

  • Reader of American history from the Depression to victory
  • Student wanting one narrative of the New Deal and the war
  • Anyone asking how the modern world took shape

Contents

  1. Editor's Introduction
  2. Abbreviated Titles Used in Citations
  3. Prologue: November 11, 1918
  4. 1 The American People on the Eve of the Great Depression
  5. 2 Panic
  6. 3 The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
  7. 4 Interregnum
  8. 5 The Hundred Days
  9. 6 The Ordeal of the American People
  10. 7 Chasing the Phantom of Recovery
  11. 8 The Rumble of Discontent
  12. 9 A Season for Reform
  13. 10 Strike!
  14. 11 The Ordeal of Franklin Roosevelt
  15. 12 What the New Deal Did
  16. 13 The Gathering Storm
  17. 14 The Agony of Neutrality
  18. 15 To the Brink
  19. 16 War in the Pacific
  20. 17 Unready Ally, Uneasy Alliance
  21. 18 The War of Machines
  22. 19 The Struggle for a Second Front
  23. 20 The Battle for Northwest Europe
  24. 21 The Cauldron of the Home Front
  25. 22 Endgame
  26. Epilogue: The World the War Made
  27. Bibliographical Essay

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