Mighty endeavor : the American nation and World War II /
Historian Blaine Browne chronicles the political, diplomatic, economic and social developments from the end of World War I to the Cold War and economic boom of the postwar years.
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- "For too many years we lived on pious hopes" : America between the wars, 1919-1939
- Biographical essay: Charles Evans Hughes
- Biographical essay: Billy Mitchell
- "We face one of the greatest choices in history" : America on the brink, August 1939-December 1941
- Biographical essay: Charles Lindbergh
- Biographical essay: Claire Chennault
- "We have suffered a serious setback:" defeat, despair and determination, 1941-1942
- Biographical essay: Franklin Roosevelt
- Biographical essay: Joseph Rochefort
- "We must be the great Arsenal of Democracy:" Mobilizing industry, labor and public opinion
- Biographical essay: Henry J. Kaiser
- Biographical essay: Frank Capra
- "All of us at home are being tested": the social impact of war
- Biographical essay: Rosie the Riveter / Naomi Parker Fraley
- Biographical essay: Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Pride of our nation" : America's fighting men and women
- Biographical essay: Jacqueline Cochran
- Biographical essay: Bill Mauldin
- "Free to live and love and laugh" : wartime pastimes and pleasures
- Biographical essay: Glenn Miller
- Biographical essay: Aaron Copland
- "To free a suffering humanity" : North Africa and Europe, 1942-1944
- Biographical essay: Dwight Eisenhower
- Biographical essay: Marlene Dietrich
- "We shall strangle the black dragon of Japanese militarism" : The Pacific War, 1943-1944
- Biographical essay: Douglas MacArthur
- Biographical essay: John F. Kennedy
- "We belong to many races and colors and creeds : we are Americans" : strains in the social fabric
- Biographical essay: Jean Wakatsuki
- Biographical essay: Roger Baldwin
- "I have the right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog" : political unity and partisanship in wartime
- Biographical essay: Henry Wallace
- Biographical essay: Earl Browder
- "We have learned to be citizens of the world" : 1945
- Biographical essay: J.R. Oppenheimer
- Biographical essay: Harry Truman
- Epilogue.