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A History of US: Book 9: War, Peace, and All That Jazz 1918-1945 (History of Us)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.91
EAN: 9780195153361
Edition: 3
ISBN: 0195153367
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: August 15, 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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Editorial Review:
From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history. With the end of World War I, many Americans decided to live it up, going to movies, driving cars, and cheering baseball games a plenty. But alongside this post-WWI spree was high unemployment, hard times for farmers, ever-present racism, and, finally, the Depression, the worst economic disaster in U.S. history, flip-flopping the nation from prosperity to scarcity. Along came one of our country's greatest leaders, F.D.R., who promised a New Deal, gave Americans hope, and then saw them through the horrors and victories of World War II. These three decades--full of optimism and despair, progress and Depression, and, of course, War, Peace, and All That Jazz--forever changed the United States.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Bravo!
Bravo, Joy Hakim! History was never really enjoyable for me-not boring, just not really captivating. This book, number 9 in A History of US, is my favorite so far. The others were really well done, and I enjoyed them, too.
She really writes it more like our countries big story. The famous men and women are introduced more as characters than as names. From the "Lets just have a good time" 20's after World War I, through racial bigotry, the Depression, the attack on Pearl Harbor to the end ... Read More
Rating:  - Not Perfect, but Pretty Darned Good
American kids have a hard enough time caring about the post-Vietnam era. For an author to make the years from 1918 to 1945 come alive, and particularly the Great Depression, is a feat indeed. Hakiim has accomplished it with this book. The criticisms about its sympathies to Communism are well-taken, but a good middle or high school teacher can remedy that in short order, or simply assign selected chapters instead of having kids read all the way through from start to finish. I have had students tell ... Read More
Rating:  - Buyer Beware
I doubt there's any US History textbooks more excitingly written for kids age 9-12 than Joy Hakim's. (This series is the one used in one of the best private schools in Silicon Valley.) They're glossy and beautiful, and well-nigh irresistible. What an incredible shame. What's the problem? The problem is they contain a version of history so slanted as to amount to an utterly shameless propagandizing of children. I'm a liberal atheist, but, really, these books should be sealed into a time ... Read More
Rating: - One of the Best History Books I've Read
"War, Peace, and All that Jazz" was one of the best history books I've ever read. It has a good approach of talking about things like the Stock Market Crash without seeming boring, and actually goes into more details than many other History books I've read. It also has really good pictures of everything from Babe Ruth to Charles Lindbergh to World War two. I really liked this book and want to keep it, even though I orignally bought it only for a college term paper.
Rating: - I loved it!
I loved this book and all of Joy Hakim's books. She makes history interesting, not just interesting, but FASINATING! I would recomend this book to anyone.
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