The Wounded Generation

From award-winning and bestselling author David Nasaw, a revelatory reexamination of post-World War II America and the nation''s unhealed traumas, exposing the fault lines that characterized the c ...

From award-winning and bestselling author David Nasaw, a revelatory reexamination of post-World War II America and the nation''s unhealed traumas, exposing the fault lines that characterized the country then and nowThe veterans of World War II returned to America with great expectations. After all, the Great Depression was over, the Germans and the Japanese were defeated, and the home front was celebrating victory. After their heroic service overseas, Black service members believed their countrymen would look beyond racial divides, Jewish soldiers hoped antisemitism would be vanquished, and th