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Chargement... The Year of Peril: America in 1942par Tracy Campbell
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 1942 in the US—a year that began with significant fear over whether further attacks on the mainland were coming, and continued with a lot less unity than we remember in retrospect. Racial terrorism continued despite Black leaders’ attempts to win democracy at home; Republicans prepared for a significant midterm that might let them take back leverage; and war production was nowhere near what FDR wanted even as price controls and rationing of gas and even coffee frustrated the public. One of the standard patterns of US politics emerged: in a low-turnout year spurred by vote suppression (the millions of men away from home in the military usually couldn’t vote; people who’d moved recently—and with mobilization there were a lot of them—usually couldn’t vote; and of course millions in the South both Black and white couldn’t vote because of poll taxes and other racial suppression measures), Republican gains convinced the conventional wisdom that the US was too conservative for progressive policies. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning to splinter from within. Exploring this precarious moment, Tracy Campbell paints a portrait of the deep social, economic, and political fault lines that pitted factions of citizens against each other in the post–Pearl Harbor era, even as the nation mobilized, government†‘aided industrial infrastructure blossomed, and parents sent their sons off to war. This captivating look at how American society responded to the greatest stress experienced since the Civil War reveals the various ways, both good and bad, that the trauma of 1942 forced Americans to redefine their relationship with democracy in ways that continue to affect us today. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)973.917History and Geography North America United States 1901- Roosevelt Through Truman Administrations F.D. RooseveltClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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