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Life During Wartime: State and Society in America During World War II - John W. Jeffries. Wartime America: The World War II Home Front. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996). Pp. x, 214. $24.95. - Bartholomew H. Sparrow. From the Outside In: World War II and the American State. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996). Pp. xv, 354. $45.00.

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John W. Jeffries. Wartime America: The World War II Home Front. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996). Pp. x, 214. $24.95.
Bartholomew H. Sparrow. From the Outside In: World War II and the American State. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996). Pp. xv, 354. $45.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

Christopher McGrory Klyza
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 215 - 218
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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1999

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1. An excellent definition of the state is found in , Bensel'sYankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (New York, 1990), 106–13Google Scholar . He describes the structural design of the American state along a continuum, with institutions running from bureaucracy to courts to President to Congress in terms of state strength.

2. Ibid.