Contributor
Gerdes, Louise I., 1953-
Imprint:San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, c2000.
Description336 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:1940: calm before the storm / Donald I. Rogers - From isolation to intervention / Gerald D. Nash - December 7, 1941: a day of infamy / Cabell Phillips - World War II: an overview / John Patrick Diggins - The policy of unconditional surrender / Robert James Maddox - Women warriors, spies, and angels of mercy / William B. Breuer - African Americans in combat / A. Russell Buchanan - The voice of America: propaganda as warfare / Holly Cowan Shulman - The atom bomb / Alan J. Levine - The politics of truth: the office of war information / John Morton Blum - Shortages, conservation, and rationing / Richard R. Lingeman - The third force: women go to work / Nancy Baker Wise, Christy Wise - The internment of Japanese Americans / Diane Yancey - Hollywood goes to war / Allen L. Woll - Doing our part: celebrities support the war effort / Otto Friedrich - Postwar Hollywood: from all-American to un-American / Robert Sklar - Television takes off / Harry Castleman, Walter J. Podrazik - The belles of baseball / Jack Fincher - The politics of popular music / Lewis A. Erenberg - The Soviet-American rift: an overview / Armin Rappaport - Drawing the line for freedom: the Truman doctrine / Mark Willen.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-328) and index.
