There really isn't much about how the war affected the daily lives of people. Given the subtitle, I expected this book to be about American society during the First World War. This might be longer than my usual reviews. He won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999). Earlier in his career, Kennedy won the Bancroft Prize for his Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970) and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for World War I, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980). He is also the current editor of the Oxford History of United States series.
Kennedy is responsible for the recent editions of the popular history textbook The American Pageant. Professor Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic analysis and cultural analysis with social history and political history. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University and the Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. An American history classic, Over Here reflects on a society's struggle with the pains of war, and offers trenchant insights into the birth of modern America.ĭavid Michael Kennedy is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializing in American history. The ways in which America mobilized for the war, chose to fight it, and then went about the business of enshrining it in memory all indicate important aspects of enduring American character.
More than a chronicle of the war years, Over Here uses the record of America's experience in the Great War as a prism through which to view early twentieth century American society. Kennedy, that explains his reasons for writing the original edition as well as his opinions on the legacy of Wilsonian idealism, most recently reflected in President George W. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new afterword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author David M. Over Here is the single-most comprehensive discussion of the impact of World War I on American society. It also left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ruinous conflict scarcely a generation later. The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history.
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