- History, Depressions, New Deal, 1933-1939, World War, 1939-1945
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities.
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Classical in form, epic, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- David M. Kennedy
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 936
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780195168921
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“Like an earthquake, the stock market crash of October 1929 cracked startlingly across the United States, the herald of a crisis that was to shake the American way of life to its foundations.”
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