@article{1416318,
      note = {Includes index.},
      author = {Cooke, Alistair,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1416318},
      title = {The American home front, 1941-1942 /},
      publisher = {Grove Press,},
      abstract = {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},
      recid = {1416318},
      pages = {xx, 327 pages :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2007},
}