| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.2

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Canada and the United States

Robert G. Spinney. World War II in Nashville: Transformation of the Homefront. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1998. Pp. xv, 209. $32.00.

Robert G. Spinney continues an ongoing exploration of World War II's effect on the American homefront by a careful examination of Nashville, Tennessee. This midsized city, both burdened and privileged by the regional idiosyncrasies of other southern metropolises, according to Spinney, suffered far less than its northern counterparts during the Great Depression because its more diversified economy was less dependent on industrial wage labor. Consequently, no sense of crisis existed in Nashville during the 1930s, although the city's ruling commercial elite cautiously began experimenting with government programs as a tool for securing old goals of city promotion and boosterism. Despite the limited success of some New Deal federal programs used to encourage economic growth while minimizing social change, Nashville's elite and public opinion at large remained antistatist and skeptical about any government invention, federal or local, in the economy. . . .

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