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Author:

Shinkle, Peter, author.

Title:

UNITING AMERICA : HOW FDR AND HENRY STIMSON BROUGHT DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS TOGETHER TO WIN WORLD WAR II / Peter Shinkle.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

St. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- WorldWar, 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.

Summary:

"Peter Shinkle's Uniting America reveals the untold story of the most crucial bipartisan alliance in United States history.."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1250762529
9781250762528

LCCN:

2022021352

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)