Detroit And The "Good War" : The World War II Letters of Mayor Edward Jeffries and Friends / Dominic J. Capeci, Jr., editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffries, Edward, 1900-

Contributor:

Capeci, Dominic J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayors--Michigan--Detroit--Correspondence.

Mayors.

World War, 1939-1945--Michigan--Detroit.

World War, 1939-1945.

Detroit (Mich.)--History.

Detroit (Mich.).

Jeffries, Edward, 1900---Correspondence.

Jeffries, Edward.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Edward J. Jeffries Jr., was elected mayor of Detroit in 1937 and for a decade led the city through a period of race riots, union turmoil, and unprecedented growth. Jeffries's circle of friends was made up primarily of newspaper reporters who shared his interests and lifestyle. Devoted to family, they nevertheless worked long hours, smoked heavily, drank moderately, and gambled often in their running card games of gin and poker.After Pearl Harbor, Jeffries watched his closest friends, most twelve to fourteen years his junior, enlist in the armed forces. Voracious letter writers, over the next f

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Lists of Abbreviations and Names; Introduction; 1 The Great Hayden; 2 The Big Show; 3 The Crucible; 4 Meliora Resurget Cineribus; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Correspondence between Mayor Edward Jeffries, journalists Martin S. Hayden and John M. Carlisle, and former Detroit city councilman George C. Edwards.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-307) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813159133

081315913X

OCLC:

900344523