The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s

by William Graebner

Book Overview

The trauma of war and cold war, the shattering revelation of the murder of millions of European Jews, the discovery of nuclear fission and the use of an atomic bomb on civilians at Hiroshima and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805790616
• ISBN13: 9780805790610
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Twayne Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

William Graebner's "The Age of Doubt"

A brief, but splendid, overview of the 1940s. Using the products of American popular culture to support his views, Graebner has created an incisive study of a troubled decade and suppports his thesis that, far from being a time when the country united against a common foe and then exulted in victory, it was instead a period of questioning and doubt, especially during the difficult postwar years.