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The bad city in the good war : San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego / Roger W. Lotchin.
Van Pelt Library D769.85.C2 L68 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lotchin, Roger W.
- Series:
- American West in the twentieth century
- The American West in the twentieth century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--California.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Cities and towns--California--History--20th century.
- Cities and towns.
- History.
- California--History--20th century.
- California.
- Physical Description:
- x, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- How the diverse populations of urban California joined hands to defeat totalitarianism during World War II.
- Contents:
- Limping to Vallejo
- Dunkirk at the marina
- Al Capone and Alcatraz
- Tijuana breakfast
- The universal double V
- War and the sources of urban racial and national diversity
- Urban economies in a statist war
- Government I
- Government II.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-302) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253341434
- 0253215463
- OCLC:
- 50228114
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