Wartime America The World War II Home Front

Name: Wartime America The World War II Home Front
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ISBN: 9781566631198

ISBN-10: 156663119X

ISBN-13: 9781566631198

Edition: N/A

Authors: John W. Jeffries

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The World War II home front revisited, with a skeptical appraisal of the Good War as a watershed in the nation's history. A superb account...a starting point for future work on the war. --Journal of American History. American Ways Series.

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 2/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English




Preface



Wartime America: Frameworks And Meanings



A watershed? A Good War?



Mobilizing The Economy



Managing the war mobilization


Managing the civilian economy


Managing the budget


The political economy of war - and peace



Victory At Home And Abroad



The dual victory


The organizational society


A leavening agent.



A Nation On The Move



Geographic mobility


The growing Sunbelt


Wartime communities


Families and children.



New Circumstances, Old Patterns



Women and the war


African Americans and the war.



"Americans All"?



"Enemy-alien" groups


Other minority groups


Dissent and deviance.



"Politics As Usual"



The election of 1940


The election of 1942 and the Seventy-eighth Congress


The election of 1944.



Glimpses Of War, Visions Of Peace



Scenes of battle


Information and images


Home-front roles, postwar goals.



Epilogue



A Note on Sources



Index