Tracy Campbell is the E. Vernon Smith and Eloise C. Smith Professor of American History at the University of Kentucky. His previous books include The Gateway Arch: A Biography and Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition, 1742–2004.
Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize,
sponsored by the New York Historical Society
"The shock of Pearl Harbor seemingly united Americans to fight a
'total war,' but The Year of Peril reveals how intensely many
citizens resented wartime taxes, rationing, and price setting, and
how divided they remained due to deep-seated racial
prejudices.Tracy Campbell splendidly recreates the era and dispels
its myths."—Donald A. Ritchie, historian emeritus of the U.S.
Senate and author of Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of
1932
"It seems incredible today that the U.S. had no confidence, in the
chaos of 1942, that it would win the war or even remain a world
power. Tracy Campbell, in this robust and engaging read, has built
a mesmerizing narrative recreation of that momentous year on the
home front, a retelling built on assiduous research, the perfect
selection of small details, and the discipline to write as if he
didn’t know the outcome."—Hank Klibanoff, co-author of The Race
Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a
Nation, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in history
“A war-torn world menaced by fascism, a fragile democracy crippled
by racism, as ordinary citizens confront the crisis; Campbell’s
riveting history reveals our current predicaments to be the same
poisons that almost killed America in 1942.”—Timothy B. Tyson,
author of The Blood of Emmett Till
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