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More About This Title Homefront U.S.A.: American During World War II, Third Edition
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New scholarship on World War II continues to broaden our understanding. With each passing year we know more about the triumphs and the tragedies of America’s involvement in the momentous conflict. Tapping into this greater awareness of the accomplishments of both soldiers and civilians and a better recognition of the consequences of decisions made, Allan Winkler presents the third edition of his highly popular series volume.
Informed by the latest historical literature and featuring many new thoughtfully chosen photographs, the third edition of Home Front U.S.A. continues to ponder the question of "the good war," the moral implications of the use of the atomic bomb, the implications of expanding wartime roles for women, African Americans, American Jews, the imprisonment of Japanese Americans at the hands of the federal government, and the experiences of the many other people who, though relegated to the fringe of mainstream society, contributed in important ways to the nation's successful prosecution of its greatest challenge.
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Allan M. Winkler is Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University in Ohio. He has also taught at Yale University and the University of Oregon and, for one year each, at the University of Helsinki in Finland, the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands, and the University of Nairobi in Kenya. A prize-winning teacher, he is author of ten books of his own, which include Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America, and “To Everything There is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song, and co-author of the college textbook The American People: Creating a nation and a Society and the high school textbook America: Pathways to the Present.
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Acknowledgments vii
Preface to the Third Edition xi
Prologue 1
Chapter One: The Arsenal of Democracy 7
The President and Mobilization 7
Industrial Mobilization 12
Mobilization and the Business Community 16
Mobilization and the Workforce 20
Mobilization and Money 25
Conclusion 28
Chapter Two: American Society at War 30
Mood and Morale 31
Campaigns and Popular Change 37
Shortages and Controls 43
Wartime Dislocation 49
Conclusion 55
Chapter Three: Outsiders and Ethnic Groups 56
Women and the War 57
African Americans and the Struggle for Equality 65
Latinos at War 76
American Indians and the War 80
Italian Americans under Attack 82
Chinese Americans in the Conflict 83
Japanese Americans: Civilian Casualties of War 84
American Jews and the War 88
Conclusion 90
Chapter Four: The Politics of War 91
The Elections of 1940 and 1942 92
The Elections of 1944 96
The Impact of the Conservative Coalition 100
Executive Leadership and Expansion 105
Harry S. Truman 108
Conclusion 110
Epilogue 111
Bibliographical Essay 116
Index 131
Illustrations and Photographs follow page 20
