America in the Forties

by Ronald Allen Goldberg

Book Overview

In America in the Forties, Goldberg energetically argues that the decade of the 1940s was one of the most influential in American his-tory: a period marked by war, sacrifice, and profound social changes. With superb detail, Goldberg traces the entire decade from the first stirrings of war in a nation consumed by the Great Depression to the conflicts with Europe and Japan to the start of the Cold War and the dawn of the atomic age. Richly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815632657
• ISBN13: 9780815632658
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"