Washington Goes to War.
Brinkley, David.
Place Published: New York, N.Y.:
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated,
Date Published: 1988.
Description: STATED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING. The book has 286 pages with 20 pages black and white photos. The book is in NEAR FINE condition with date written on the FFEP. The jacket is in NEAR FINE condition with price clipped front flap. JMVintage specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and other curious subjects.The dust jacket reads: From the fall of Poland in 1939, as America began moving (sometimes sideways) into the war, we look behind the scenes of government in a Washington abuzz with life and conflict: FDR ingeniously outmaneuvering the isolationists, Senator Taft and his cohorts fiercely (but fruitlessly) resisting. And then, Pearl Harbor-and whole armies" of expert oldsters, deferred youngsters and fresh-faced secretaries converging on Washington to support the war effort, to share in the adventure of their generation, to help retool American life and enterprise, to get the tanks and planes built, the GIs trained, transported, housed and fed. Brinkley surrounds us with the fascinating people who moved and shook FDR's Washington-from Eleanor (Cissy") Patterson, the flamboyant newspaper publisher who loathed FDR, and Evelyn Walsh McLean, whose Sunday soirees were the most coveted in town, to Chester Bowles, the genial ad man who succeeded at the hair-raising task of regulating wages and prices in a nation of individualists, to Senator Theodore Bilbo, whose crude racism never gave an inch to the fact of world war, and A. Philip Randolph who extracted from his government the first official order in history banning "discrimination on the grounds of race, color, creed, or national origin." Brinkley's narrative carries us through the suspense of D-Day, the death of FDR, Truman's inauguration and the celebration of last of V-E and V-J Day.
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
ISBN: 0394510259
Book Id: 12098
Price: $9.75
