Acknowledgments vii
Preface to the Third Edition xi
Prologue 1
Chapter One: The Arsenal of Democracy 7
The President and Mobilization 7
Industrial Mobilization 12
Mobilization and the Business Community 16
Mobilization and the Workforce 20
Mobilization and Money 25
Conclusion 28
Chapter Two: American Society at War 30
Mood and Morale 31
Campaigns and Popular Change 37
Shortages and Controls 43
Wartime Dislocation 49
Conclusion 55
Chapter Three: Outsiders and Ethnic Groups 56
Women and the War 57
African Americans and the Struggle for Equality 65
Latinos at War 76
American Indians and the War 80
Italian Americans under Attack 82
Chinese Americans in the Conflict 83
Japanese Americans: Civilian Casualties of War 84
American Jews and the War 88
Conclusion 90
Chapter Four: The Politics of War 91
The Elections of 1940 and 1942 92
The Elections of 1944 96
The Impact of the Conservative Coalition 100
Executive Leadership and Expansion 105
Harry S. Truman 108
Conclusion 110
Epilogue 111
Bibliographical Essay 116
Index 131
Illustrations and Photographs follow page 20
Allan M. Winkler is Distinguished Professor of History atMiami University in Ohio. He has also taught at Yale University andthe University of Oregon and, for one year each, at the Universityof Helsinki in Finland, the University of Amsterdam in TheNetherlands, and the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Aprize-winning teacher, he is author of ten books of his own, whichinclude Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom,Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America, and To Everything There is a Season : Pete Seeger andthe Power of Song, and co-author of the college textbook TheAmerican People: Creating a nation and a Society and the highschool textbook America: Pathways to the Present.
Praise for a previous edition: "There are three major attributes to this book that help to make it a readable and useful supplement to a survey course. These are its chapter introductions, its judicious use of quotes and interpretations from recent scholarship, and the bibliographical essay.... These lend authenticity and relevancy to the work and are, not incidentally, good models through which to encourage students to use the same techniques in their own writing." (Teaching History, 1986)
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