The Year of Peril: America in 1942

by Tracy Campbell

Book Overview

This fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II "place(s) today's myriad social traumas and dislocations in perspective."--George Will, Washington Post

Winner of the New-York Historical Society's Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize

The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300233787
• ISBN13: 9780300233780
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"