| Description |
viii, 451 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-438) and index. |
| Contents |
Bipartisan alliance during World War II -- The hunter and the strategist -- The fight over isolationism -- Crossing the divide -- Uniting America -- A bipartisan call to arms -- The separate peace -- "Let the Negro masses march!" -- Pearl Harbor -- World War, internal war -- Women unite for the war effort -- The double V: Black America's struggle -- The US goes on the offensive -- FDR takes command -- Willkie takes the stage -- The 1943 race riots: hate, blood and fire -- Power, advice and dissent -- Forging American leadership for D-Day -- The soldier voting schism -- A bipartisan vision for American politics -- The Holocaust and the fight over postwar Germany -- FDR's last bipartisan campaign -- Truman, Stimson and the atom bomb -- Epilogue: The bipartisan alliance and America's future. |
| Summary |
"Peter Shinkle's Uniting America reveals the untold story of the most crucial bipartisan alliance in United States history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
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Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
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Political leadership -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Polarization (Social sciences) -- United States.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
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| ISBN |
9781250762528 (hardcover) |
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