The American home front, 1941-1942 / Alistair Cooke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004.

Travel.

United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945.

United States.

Manners and customs.

United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.

Social conditions.

United States--History--1933-1945.

History.

World War, 1939-1945--United States.

World War, 1939-1945.

Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004--Travel--United States.

Cooke, Alistair.

Physical Description:

xx, 327 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2006]

Summary:

Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Cooke, a newly naturalized citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing a monumental change. He wanted to "see what the war had done to people, to the towns I might go through, to some jobs and crops, to stretches of landscape I loved and had seen at peace; and to let significance fall where it might." Working throughout the war, Cooke finished the manuscript as the atomic bomb was being dropped on Hiroshima. His publisher at the time thought there would be little interest in books on the war, and so it was stuffed in a closet for almost sixty years, until shortly before Cooke's death. Meanwhile, he had become one of the most widely read chroniclers of America, and his record of a lost country are captivating.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction to a war

A passport to the people

Through the Appalachians to the pioneers

Deep down South

The Gulf Coast

The Southwest

Westward the course of empire

The Pacific Northwest

The Great Plains

From wheat to steel

The rise and fall of New England

Epilogue: four months in 1945

Envoi

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Map on lining papers.

ISBN:

0871139391

OCLC:

62741573

Publisher Number:

9780871139399