Uniting America
How FDR and Henry Stimson Brought Democrats and Republicans Together to Win World War II
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 451 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
"Peter Shinkle's Uniting America reveals the untold story of the most crucial bipartisan alliance in United States history.."-- Provided by publisher.
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 -- 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.
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
Political leadership -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Polarization (Social sciences) -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
Political leadership -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Polarization (Social sciences) -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
ISBN:
9781250762528
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HISTORY North Am. US Modern Shi | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-438) and index.