Those angry days : Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's fight over World War II, 1939-1941 Cover Image

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Those angry days : Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's fight over World War II, 1939-1941

Summary: Traces the crisis period leading up to America's entry into World War II, describing the nation's polarized interventionist and isolationist factions as represented by the government, in the press, and on the streets.

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ISBN: 0679604715 (ebook)
ISBN: 9780679604716 (ebook)
ISBN: 1400069742 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781400069743 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xxii, 548 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Random House, c2013.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-518) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"A Modern Galahad" -- "We Were Fools" -- "Where Is My World?" -- "You Haven't Got the Votes" -- "This War Has Come Home to Me" -- "I Am Almost Literally Walking on Eggs" -- "Paranoia Can Be Catching" -- "The Art of Manipulation" -- "Is This War Our Concern?" -- "Why Do We Not Defend Her?" -- "The Greatest of All Our Ambassadors" -- "The People Saved the Day" -- "Congress Is Going to Raise Hell" -- "An American First, and a Republican Afterward" -- "The Yanks Are Not Coming" -- "The Bubonic Plague Among Writers" -- "A National Disgrace" -- "Well, Boys, Britain's Broke" -- "A Race Against Time" -- "A Traitorous Point of View" -- "Der Fuhrer Thanks You For Your Loyalty" -- "Where Is This Crisis?" -- "Propaganda ... With a Very Thick Coating of Sugar" -- "Setting the Ground for Anti-Semitism" -- "He Was Not Going to Lead the Country Into War" -- "The Greatest Scoop in History" -- "Let's Lick Hell Out of Them" -- Aftermath.