Gotham at war : a history of New York city from 1933 to 1945 / Mike Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Mike, 1942- author.

Series:

Gotham series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--New York (State)--New York.

World War, 1939-1945.

New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

958 pages ; illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

History of New York city from 1933 to 1945

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Gotham at War unveils the history of New York and the Second World War, from isolationism and factionalism to crucible of the American effort and the Allied Cause in a total and global war. Kaleidoscopic and immersive, Gotham at War captures the full spectrum of New York and the war from every possible aspect-social, political, economic, and military. Even before the war had started street battles between New York's homegrown fascists and the workers' movement-allied with immigrants from all over the world and their children in the barrios of Gotham-played prelude. Set in the generation after race "scientists" based in the elite warrens of the Upper East Side championed and then imposed national immigration restriction, Gotham at War sees New Yorkers struggle to shake off the city's eugenic past. Between 1933 and 1945, the city wrestled with itself, starting from the rise of Hitler through isolationism and growing interventionism; through Pearl Harbor and a full-throated war effort, when millions of American soldiers and sailors and billions of tons of materiel passed through New York's waterfronts to the warfronts. Along the way Mike Wallace's saga traces the transformation of New York, embracing garment workers and skyscrapers; the subway and Wall Street; gangsters and idealists; pols and reformers; nightclubs and boardrooms; Nazi infiltrators and FBI gumshoes; magazines and movies; shuls and cathedrals; every neighborhood, every industry, and all the peoples of the city swept up in a world that had caught fire." (from the publisher)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199384518

0199384517

OCLC:

1504595306