War, Peace, and All That Jazz, 1918-1945, A History of US, Book 9 by Joy Hakim | Audiobook

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Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible Title: War, Peace, and All That Jazz, 1918-1945, A History of US, Book 9 Author: Joy Hakim Narrator: Christina Moore Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins Language: English Release date: 02-18-05 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: History, American Summary: From woman?s suffrage to Babe Ruth?s home runs, from Louis Armstrong?s jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt?s four presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history. With the end of World War I, many Americans decided to live it up, going to movies, driving cars, and cheering baseball games aplenty. But alongside this post-WWI spree was high unemployment, hard times for farmers, ever-present racism, and, finally, the Depression, the worst economic disaster in U.S. history, flip-flopping the nation from prosperity to scarcity. Along came one of our country?s greatest leaders, F.D.R., who promised a New Deal, gave Americans hope, and then saw them through the horrors and victories of World War II. These three decades ? full of optimism and despair, progress and Depress, and, of course, War, Peace, and All That Jazz - forever changed the United States. is a 10-volume, award-winning series about the birth and development of the United States. Master storyteller and lifelong student of American history Joy Hakim takes readers from 9 to 99 on a breathtaking journey, from the Ice Age to the 21st century. ©1993, 1999, 2003 Joy Hakim (P)2002 Recorded Books, LLC. Recorded by arrangement with Oxford University Press. Contact: [email protected]

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