Discusses various aspects of World War II, including the effect of war on women and minorities, and Szilard and Einstein's encouragement of Roosevelt to make an atomic bomb.
Maurice Isserman received a B.A. in history from Reed College in 1973 and his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Rochester in 1979. He is Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.