David M. Kennedy
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
David M. Kennedy
You can think of Freedom from Fear as the academic’s version of The Greatest Generation: like Tom Brokaw, Stanford history professor David M. Kennedy focuses on the years of the Great Depression and the Second World War and how the American people coped with those events. But there the similarities end—and, in terms of the differences, one might begin by noting that the historian’s account is over twice the size of the journalist’s.
Whereas Brokaw made use of extensive interviews, Kennedy relies on published accounts and primary sources, all…
