In Freedom From Fear, Kennedy examines in detail America's greatest economic crisis ever, and explains all existing comparisons with that event. Kennedy also states the techniques of leadership Franklin Roosevelt (possibly the most effective and significant president of the century) showed and seriously discusses the nature of “FDR's great reform legacy”. In terms of foreign relations, Kennedy describes the amazing change from isolationism to global engagement and dominance. Kennedy goes over the debate between 1935 and 1941 about American foreign policy, a debate that ended with American involvement in World War II and caused the end of a 150 years of isolationism. This debate still comes back in discussions for foreign policy today. Economically, he explains how the nation (whose citizens suffered 17 percent unemployment throughout the Depression decade and a third of whom FDR characterized as "ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished") accomplished the production miracle of World War II and placed itself at the greatest sustained material and consumer boom of all time. Kennedy focuses on a primary change in our political culture caused by the Depression and the war, our heightened expectations about the role of government in our lives.

Indeed, the American experience of war was both intense and unique. Between 1941 and 1945 the federal government spent $321 billion, in constant dollars more than twice what it spent in the entire period from 1789 to 1940. Even though the war wrecked the economies of all the other major countries; Kennedy

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