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The American Home Front: 1941-1942
by Cooke, Alistair
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0871139391
- ISBN 13
- 9780871139399
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US: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. From the famous BBC correspondent and television host comes a remarkably in sightful and detailed firsthand portrait of America during the early days o f World War II. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Alistair Cooke, a newly naturalized American citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing monumental change. Cooke traveled small highways, with t heir advertising signs and their local topography, in an age before the int erstate highway system. In The American Home Front - a fascinating artifact, a charming travelogue, and a sharp portrait of America - Cooke chronicles the regional glories he encounters and the reactions of the citizens to war, from indifference to grief, from opportunism to resilience under military threat. Filled with touching personal stories of the effects of war, from a Japanese family facing internment that tries to sell Cooke their car, to the experiences of the unemployed relocating in hopes of jobs in a gunpowder factory, The American Home Front is the work of an experienced, talented journalist; it is intelligent, touching, and funny.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000042499
- Title
- The American Home Front: 1941-1942
- Author
- Cooke, Alistair
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0871139391
- ISBN 13
- 9780871139399
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2006
- Bookseller catalogs
- History / Americas;
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