Mighty endeavor : the American nation and World War II /: the American nation and World War II. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Blaine T. Browne.
• Authors: Browne, Blaine T (Blaine Terry)
• Contents: "For too many years we lived on pious hopes" : America between the wars, 1919-1939 -- Biographical essay: Charles Evans Hughes -- Biographical essay: Billy Mitchell -- "We face one of the greatest choices in history": America on the Brink, August 1939--December 1941 -- Biographical essay: Charles Lindbergh -- Biographical essay: Claire Chennault -- "We have suffered a serious setback:" defeat, despair and determination, 1941-1942 -- Biographical essay: Franklin Roosevelt -- Biographical essay: Joseph Rochefort -- "We must be the great Arsenal of Democracy:" Mobilizing industry, labor and public opinion -- Biographical essay: Henry J. Kaiser -- Biographical essay: Frank Capra -- "All of us at home are being tested": the social impact of war -- Biographical essay: Rosie the Riveter / Naomi Parker Fraley -- Biographical essay: Eleanor Roosevelt -- "Pride of our nation" -- America's fighting men and women -- Biographical essay: Jacqueline Cochran -- Biographical essay: Bill Mauldin -- "Free to live and love and laugh" : wartime pastimes and pleasures -- Biographical essay: Glenn Miller -- Biographical essay: Aaron Copland -- "To free a suffering humanity" : North Africa and Europe, 1942-1944 -- Biographical essay: Dwight Eisenhower -- Biographical essay: Marlene Dietrich -- "We shall strangle the black dragon of Japanese militarism" : The Pacific War, 1943-1944 -- Biographical essay: Douglas MacArthur -- Biographical essay: John F. Kennedy -- "We belong to many races and colors and creeds--we are Americans" : strains in the social fabric -- Biographical essay -- Jean Wakatsuki -- Biographical essay: Roger Baldwin -- "I have the right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog" -- political unity and partisanship in wartime -- Biographical essay: Henry Wallace -- Biographical essay: Earl Browder -- "We have learned to be citizens of the world": 1945 -- Biographical essay: J.R. Oppenheimer -- Biographical essay: Harry Truman -- Epilogue.
• Publisher Details: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages)
• Subjects: 940.53/73; World War, 1939-1945 -- United States; World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Biography; United States; Biographies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1538114917; 9781538114919
• Related ISBNs: 9781538114902
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 18, 2019).
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