Prosperity Road: America, 1920–1945, from Hoover to Roosevelt (American History)
A sweeping history of America during the tumultuous decades after World War I when a somewhat rural, isolationist republic transformed into a global superpower.
Through the Roaring Twenties to the Great Crash and Depression of the Thirties, the fits and starts of the New Deal, and then the all-consuming conflict of fighting fascism and World War II, the years 1920 through 1945 created the American world, with all its power and trade-offs: its predominance on the global stage, its increasingly imperial government, and unprecedented affluence. How the experiences of the Depression and War shaped political expectations and the institutions of the United States is what Prosperity Road portrays in telling detail. Written by acclaimed Cambridge historian Anthony Badger, Prosperity Road is cultural, economic and political history at its finest and most captivating.Other books in the American History series include:Ecstatic Nation by Brenda WineappleRebirth of a Nation by Jackson LearsWalking Giant by David S. ReynoldsThe Age of Reagan by Sean Wilnetz
A sweeping history of America during the tumultuous decades after World War I when a somewhat rural, isolationist republic transformed into a global superpower.
Through the Roaring Twenties to the Great Crash and Depression of the Thirties, the fits and starts of the New Deal, and then the all-consuming conflict of fighting fascism and World War II, the years 1920 through 1945 created the American world, with all its power and trade-offs: its predominance on the global stage, its increasingly imperial government, and unprecedented affluence. How the experiences of the Depression and War shaped political expectations and the institutions of the United States is what Prosperity Road portrays in telling detail. Written by acclaimed Cambridge historian Anthony Badger, Prosperity Road is cultural, economic and political history at its finest and most captivating.Other books in the American History series include:Ecstatic Nation by Brenda WineappleRebirth of a Nation by Jackson LearsWalking Giant by David S. ReynoldsThe Age of Reagan by Sean Wilnetz
Description
A sweeping history of America during the tumultuous decades after World War I when a somewhat rural, isolationist republic transformed into a global superpower.
Through the Roaring Twenties to the Great Crash and Depression of the Thirties, the fits and starts of the New Deal, and then the all-consuming conflict of fighting fascism and World War II, the years 1920 through 1945 created the American world, with all its power and trade-offs: its predominance on the global stage, its increasingly imperial government, and unprecedented affluence. How the experiences of the Depression and War shaped political expectations and the institutions of the United States is what Prosperity Road portrays in telling detail. Written by acclaimed Cambridge historian Anthony Badger, Prosperity Road is cultural, economic and political history at its finest and most captivating.Other books in the American History series include:Ecstatic Nation by Brenda WineappleRebirth of a Nation by Jackson LearsWalking Giant by David S. ReynoldsThe Age of Reagan by Sean Wilnetz
