![]() Kennedy, professor of history at Stanford University, gives a scrutinizing view illustrating scope and intricacy into the social developments, economics, military, and political events between 1929-1945. This whimsical style informs as well as entertains the reader (96). ![]() Throughout its 464 pages, Kennedy uses rich character descriptive skills, e.g., “Louis McHenry Howe… a crater-eyed, gnarled, wheezing homunculus”. Harvard Sitkoff considered this age to be the “most momentous era in the twentieth-century United States.” Kennedy’s talent for blending historical facts with compelling storytelling can be perused in his other notable works, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger and Over Here: The First World War and American Society ). His book offers a gripping narrative during a pivotal epoch that shaped America the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War – the “Good War”. Kennedy’s, Freedom from Fear, won the Pulitzer Prize and is part of the Oxford History of the United States series. ![]() Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. Here is my second critical review for HIST 912 Comprehensive Examination and Readings in Modern America, ![]()
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