The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917-1933 [The St. Martin's Series in Twentieth Century United States History]

This book reexamines America's historical development during the years from 1917 to 1933, focusing in particular on wartime mobilization and action, the rise and collapse of the world's first mass -consumption economy, and the continued search for a modern managerial order geared to the realization of liberal ideas.