V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II

372 pp. 8vo. "[A] distinguished historian examines the nation’s involvement in a war that most americans thought necessary and righteous, a crusade against fascist tyranny... Blum focuses chiefly on the home front: on how our culture and our politics affected the course of the war and were in turn affected by it, and how the whole experience - commanding, even though the United States itself never suffered enemy attacks and the civilian population went unscathed - shaped our expectations of the postwar world here and abroad."