 |
| | | | |
Making America, A History of the United States
Making America, Third Edition
Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Christopher L. Miller, The University of Texas, Pan American
Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
James L. Gormly, Washington and Jefferson College
| | |
| | Suggested Readings
Chapter 25: America's Rise to World Leadership, 1929-1945
John Morton Blum. V Was for Victory (1976).
A good introduction to society and politics
during the war
Roger Daniels. Prisoners Without Trial
(1993).
A compassionate study of the internment of
Japanese Americans.
Sherna B. Gluck. Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social
Change (1987).
An important work examining the changes that
took place among women during the war.
Manfred Jonas. Isolationism in America
(1966).
A standard work on the varieties of isolationist
attitudes in the United States, especially during the 1930s.
John Keegen. The Second World War (1990).
An excellent one-volume work that summarizes
the military and diplomatic aspects of the Second World War.
Warren Kimball. The Juggler; Franklin D.
Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman (1991).
A well written study of Roosevelt war-time
diplomacy and goals.
Gerald F. Linderman. The World Within War: America’s Combat Experience
in World War II (1997).
An excellent examination of the life and attitudes
of the American soldier as they entered the service and faced the harsh realities
of war and combat.
Ronald Spector. Eagle Against the Sun
(1998).
One of the best general accounts of the war
in the Pacific.
David Wyman. The Abandonment of the Jews
(1985).
A balanced account of the United States’ role
in the Holocaust.
|
| | |
|
|
|
