Postwar Waging Peace in Chicago |
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| Author:
| McEnaney, Laura |
| Series title: | Politics and Culture in Modern America Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-5055-8 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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Featuring a fine-grained history of Chicago's working class, Postwar investigates what the aftermath of World War II meant to a broad swath of Americans and finds a working-class war liberalism--a conviction that the wartime state had taken things from people and that the postwar era was about reclaiming those things with the state's help.
Featuring a fine-grained history of Chicago's working class, Postwar investigates what the aftermath of World War II meant to a broad swath of Americans and finds a working-class war liberalism--a conviction that the wartime state had taken things from people and that the postwar era was about reclaiming those things with the state's help.