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Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government

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Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government - Sparrow, James T
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Warfare State shows how the federal government, in the course of World War II, vastly expanded its influence over American society. Equally important, it looks at how and why Americans adapted to this expansion of authority. Through mass participation in military service, war work, rationing, income taxation and ownership of the national debt in the form of war bonds, ordinary Americans learned to live with the warfare state. They accepted these new obligations because the government encouraged all citizens to think of ...

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Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government 2013, Oxford University Press, USA, New York

ISBN-13: 9780199930357

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