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    Over Here: The First World War and American Society
    Over Here: The First World War and American Society
    Over Here: The First World War and American Society
    Audiobook17 hours

    Over Here: The First World War and American Society

    Written by David M. Kennedy

    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

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    The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. It also left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ruinous conflict scarcely a generation later.

    Over Here is the single most comprehensive discussion of the impact of World War I on American society. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new afterword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author David M. Kennedy, that explains his reasons for writing the original edition as well as his opinions on the legacy of Wilsonian idealism, most recently reflected in President George W. Bush's national security strategy. More than a chronicle of the war years, Over Here uses the record of America's experience in the Great War as a prism through which to view early twentieth-century American society. The ways in which America mobilized for the war, chose to fight it, and then went about the business of enshrining it in memory all indicate important aspects of enduring American character. An American history classic, Over Here reflects on a society's struggle with the pains of war, and offers trenchant insights into the birth of modern America.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 14, 2017
    ISBN9781515985532
    Over Here: The First World War and American Society
    Author

    David M. Kennedy

    David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. He is the author of several books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.

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    • 5/5
      Amazingly detailed look at the American home front in World War I. Although the detail could bog down a casual reader (otherwise making it 4 stars because of readability issues), that detail is also what makes this book fabulous. The author's ability to tease out complex international connections (for example, American incarnations of socialism) as well as talk about domestic responses to those fears (lynching of German Americans in St. Louis and other locations)--among other political, social, and economic contexts he illuminates for the reader--makes this book exceptional. If you want to really know how Americans fought against joining the war, made the turn for supporting intervention, and how the war affected their daily lives back in the states, you should look no further.
    • 5/5
      I'm currently reading this so I'm not completely done with it. However, I absolutely love this book thus far. David M. Kennedy is an amazing writer (as seen in his book Freedom From Fear). This book is much smaller than the Freedom From Fear book but no less important. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in the topic.