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Uncle Sam Wants You - World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (Hardcover, First)
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Uncle Sam Wants You - World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (Hardcover, First)
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In April 1917, the United States embarked on its first overseas war
- with no history of conscription, an army smaller than Bulgaria's,
just two hundred agents in its federal Bureau of Investigation, and
a political culture that saw little role for the federal government
other than delivering the mail. Uncle Sam Wants You tells the
dramatic story of the mobilization of the American homefront in
World War I. In the absence of a strong federal government,
Americans mobilized the Progressive Era's vibrant civil society by
drawing on a political culture that stressed duty, obligation, and
responsibility over rights and freedoms. In clubs, schools,
churches, and workplaces, Americans governed each other during the
war. But the heated temper of war quickly unleashed coercion on an
unprecedented scale, making wartime America the scene of some of
American history's most drastic political violence. Solving this
problem prompted Americans to turn over increasing amounts of power
to the federal government, giving rise to the modern American state
of the twentieth century. Whether they were some of the four
million men drafted under the Selective Service Act or the tens of
millions of homefront volunteers - or counted themselves among the
thousand of conscientious objectors, anti-war radicals, or German
enemy aliens, Americans of the World War I era created a new
American state - and new ways of being American citizens. Based on
a rich array of sources bringing together political leaders and
ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and
provocative new interpretation of American policial history.
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