Uncle Sam Wants You

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"Christopher Capozzola shows how, in the absence of a strong federal government, Americans at first mobilized society by stressing duty, obligation, and responsibility over rights and freedoms. In clubs, schools, churches, and workplaces, Americans governed each other. But the heated temper of war quickly unleashed coercion on an unprecedented scale, making wartime America the scene of some of the nation's most serious political violence, including notorious episodes of outright mob violence. To solve this problem, Americans turned over increasing amounts of power to state institutions. In the end, whether they were some of the four million men drafted under the Selective Service Act or the tens of millions of home-front volunteers or counted themselves among the thousands of conscientious objectors, antiwar radicals, or German enemy aliens Americans of the World War I era created a new American state and new ways of being American citizens."--Jacket.

subjects: World War, 1914-1918,  Political culture,  Patriotism,  Citizenship,  Social conditions,  Consensus (Social sciences),  History,  World war, 1914-1918, united states,  United states, social conditions,  United states, history, 20th century,  United states, social conditions, 1865-1945,  Social aspects,  Monaco,  Heads of State and Heads of government,  Monarchy,  Politics,  Government,  Constitutional law