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INDIVIDUALITY MEETS TOTAL WAR,
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This review is from: Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (Hardcover)
Great read, especially for those like me who got curious about the dichotomy in American life between federal power and social goals on the one hand, and individual freedom on the other. While the War Between the States certainly advanced federal power, this history reveals that it was World War I and the first unified national effort in global war that the necessity of federal controls to produce a monumental war effort ran headlong into the culture of individualism, and the greater influence of state and local governments that pre-existed it. Without the experience of World war I, it would likely have been impossible for the US to have mobilized as it did for World War II, the Nazis might very well have won, the Japanese might very well have held onto China, and the US would be a second rate power, the Soviet Union a hodgpodge of German colonies, and Europe a pale poor place.
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Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen by Christopher Capozzola (Hardcover - July 21, 2008)
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