Tracy Campbell is the E. Vernon Smith and Eloise C. Smith Professor of American History at the University of Kentucky. His previous books include The Gateway Arch: A Biography and Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition, 1742-2004.
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A fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II. The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of d... SEE MORE