The American home front, 1941-1942 / Alistair Cooke.
2007
E169 .C7495 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
The American home front, 1941-1942 / Alistair Cooke.
Author
Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004.
Edition
1st paperback ed.
ISBN
9780802143327 (paperback)
0802143326 (paperback)
9780871139399
0871139391
0802143326 (paperback)
9780871139399
0871139391
Imprint
New York : Grove Press, [2007], ©2006.
Language
English
Description
xx, 327 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, facsimiles ; 21 cm
Call Number
E169 .C7495 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.53/73
Summary
Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Cooke, a newly naturalized citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing a monumental change. He wanted to "see what the war had done to people, to the towns I might go through, to some jobs and crops, to stretches of landscape I loved and had seen at peace; and to let significance fall where it might." Working throughout the war, Cooke finished the manuscript as the atomic bomb was being dropped on Hiroshima. His publisher at the time thought there would be little interest in books on the war, and so it was stuffed in a closet for almost sixty years, until shortly before Cooke's death. Meanwhile, he had become one of the most widely read chroniclers of America, and his record of a lost country are captivating.--From publisher description
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Includes index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction to a war
A passport to the people
Through the Appalachians to the pioneers
Deep down South
The Gulf Coast
The Southwest
Westward the course of empire
The Pacific Northwest
The Great Plains
From wheat to steel
The rise and fall of New England.
A passport to the people
Through the Appalachians to the pioneers
Deep down South
The Gulf Coast
The Southwest
Westward the course of empire
The Pacific Northwest
The Great Plains
From wheat to steel
The rise and fall of New England.