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David M. Kennedy

Freedom from Fear

The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

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Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities.The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity. As David Kennedy vividly demonstrates, the economic crisis of the 1930s was far more than a simple reaction to the alleged excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before 1929, America's unbridled industrial revolution had gyrated through repeated boom and bust cycles, wastefully consuming capital and inflicting untold misery on city and count… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-974382-7
  • EAN: 9780199743827
  • Produktnummer: 13920762
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 8'935 KB
  • Abbildungen: 48 b/w halftones & line illus.

Über den Autor


David M. Kennedy is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. He is the author of Over Here: The First World War and American Society, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, which won a Bancroft Prize. He lives in Stanford, California.

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