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

by John Morton Blum · 1976

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A distinguished historian examines the nation's involvement in a war that most americans thought necessary and righteous. He focuses on the home front: how our culture and politics affected the course of the war and how the war in turn affected us. Index.

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World War IIWorld War IIMore like thisLess of this20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 384 pages

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