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Title: The Proud Decades: America in War and in Peace, 1941-1960 by John Patrick Diggins ISBN: 0-393-95656-3 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Two sides to every argument
Comment: Historical reviewer Carter was correct in putting Diggins in the synthesis camp. Diggins acknowledged the revisionist view on many events. He agreed with the revisionist view that Roosevelt could have done more to save Jews in the concentration camps. But Diggins also pointed out the traditionalist view that Roosevelt felt defeating the Nazi war machine was the best long-term salvation for the Jews.
He showed both sides over the debate on dropping the atomic bomb. He brought up the revisionists' opinions that Truman could have simply had a demonstration of the bomb on an island near Japan, and that the second bomb was dropped too soon after the first, not giving the Japanese government time to react. Yet Diggins also admitted that Japanese soldiers had not shown a willingness to surrender and that an invasion would have killed more people than the bombs killed. He wrote: 'The sorrow and the glory in this period of America's past are inseparable. To be worthy of truth, history must make us shudder as well as smile.' Diggins is a true synthesis historian.
Rating: 4
Summary: Surprisingly good
Comment: Having been assigned this book for a UCLA history course, I expected the usual leftist slant. I found no such slant, however. This book was bold: chapters on not only the basics of the era (WWII, Korean War, McCarthyism), but on American social trends. The standard political history I thought I was to read turned into a unique blend of the political and social aspects of America through the "proud decades". Blasting away any such slant I cynically assumed would exist, the author writes on such figures as William F. Buckley, Jr. and F.A. Hayek. I must admit, such references are brief, but the fact that were indeed there says a lot about the work as a whole. I commend the author for producing a "one-stop shop" for America in the 40's through the 50's.
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Title: Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression 1920-1941 by Michael E. Parrish ISBN: 0393311341 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920 by John Milton Cooper, John J. Cooper ISBN: 0393956555 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Great Depression : America 1929-1941 by Robert S. McElvaine ISBN: 0812923278 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 06 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics by Bruce J. Schulman ISBN: 030681126X Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till by Stephen J. Whitfield ISBN: 080184326X Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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