{"product_id":"the-year-of-peril-america-in-1942-9780300233780","title":"The Year of Peril: America in 1942","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II \"place(s) todays myriad social traumas and dislocations in perspective.\"George Will  Washington Post  Winner of the New-York Historical Societys Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize  The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942  however  after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front  America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning to splinter from within.  Exploring this precarious moment  Tracy Campbell paints a portrait of the deep social  economic  and political fault lines that pitted factions of citizens against each other in the postPearl Harbor era  even as the nation mobilized  governmentaided industrial infrastructure blossomed  and parents sent their sons off to war. This captivating look at how American society responded to the greatest stress experienced since the Civil War reveals the various ways  both good and bad  that the trauma of 1942 forced Americans to redefine their relationship with democracy in ways that continue to affect us today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789865115701,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300233787","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300233780.jpg?v=1784701361","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-year-of-peril-america-in-1942-9780300233780","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}