V is for victory : Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the triumph of World War II

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Craig, 1955- author

Publication/Creation:

New York : Scribner, 2023

Format:

Book

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

V is for victory : Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the triumph of World War II / Craig Nelson

Related/Included Titles:

Like the first chapter of Genesis --
The world at your feet --
When the light falls --
The Amazon and apple of their eyes --
How to make America first --
Let sleeping dogs lie through their teeth --
The gun in her purse --
Infamy, and aftermath --
The first victories --
Have you considered a career in supply-chain management? --
Into the lands of the Normen --
Coda.

Variant Titles:

Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the triumph of World War II

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Biography
History

Subjects:

Roosevelt, Franklin D.(Franklin Delano),1882-1945
World War, 1939-1945--United States
Industrial mobilization--United States--History--20th century
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--United States
United States--Politics and government--1933-1945

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Like the first chapter of Genesis -- The world at your feet -- When the light falls -- The Amazon and apple of their eyes -- How to make America first -- Let sleeping dogs lie through their teeth -- The gun in her purse -- Infamy, and aftermath -- The first victories -- Have you considered a career in supply-chain management? -- Into the lands of the Normen -- Coda.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-414) and index.

Summary:

"New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, "the arsenal of democracy" that won World War II. As Nazi Germany began to conquer Europe, America's military was unprepared, too small, and poorly supplied. The Nazis were supported by robust German factories that created a seemingly endless flow of arms, trucks, tanks, airplanes, and submarines. The United States, emerging from the Great Depression, was skeptical of American involvement in Europe and not ready to wage war. Hardened isolationists predicted disaster if the country went to war. In this fascinating and deeply researched account, Craig Nelson traces how Franklin D. Roosevelt steadily and sometimes secretively put America on a war footing by convincing America's top industrialists such as Henry Ford Jr. to retool their factories, by diverting the country's supplies of raw materials to the war effort, and above all by convincing the American people to endure shortages, to work in wartime factories, and to send their sons into harm's way. Within a few years, the nation's workers were producing thousands of airplanes and tanks, hundreds of warships and submarines. Under FDR's resolute leadership, victory at land and sea and air across the globe began at home in America--a powerful and essential narrative largely overlooked in conventional histories of the war but which, in Nelson's skilled, authoritative hands, becomes an illuminating and important work destined to become an American history classic"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

x, 437 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937778010102486

ISBN:

9781982122911
1982122919

OCLC Number:

1365385238

Barcode:

010003568844