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In six pages this paper presents a book report on the first volume of noted historian William Manchester’s chronicle of America during this time period, with the emphasis being on the Great Depression, FDR and the New Deal, Pearl Harbor, World War II, and the Cold War. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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fled the visionary gleam? / Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" (Wordsworth 135) Renowned historian William Manchester (1922-2004) applies this inquiry to the study of American
history in his acclaimed text, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972, a massive work first published in two volumes in 1973. The twentieth century
has often been described as Americas century, and Manchester selects these four tumultuous decades to consider the evolution of American culture, and the first volume examines how culture was influenced
by the Great Depression, the New Deal of thirty-third President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the U.S. entry into World War II (and its abrupt atomic end), and the ideological Cold War
that followed. By beginning at what was, up until that time, the darkest moment in Americas twentieth century, Manchester could examine societal contributing factors, the isolationism that kept Americans
out of world affairs since the First World War, and a collective resiliency that would persevere time and again. With an engaging and conversational style, this text and this
historian change the way history is considered. In 1932, the United States was entering year three of the Great Depression, with seemingly no end in sight. With
businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, it is particularly ironic that President Herbert Hoover, who had been a successful businessman in private
life, chose to do little or nothing to try and change the situation. Manchester sets the contentious sociopolitical stage of the period by considering a long-forgotten episode in American
history, the July 1932 march on Washington DC by the Bonus Army, veterans of World War I who implored upon Congress to expedite their wartime service bonuses and pensions in
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