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04136aam a22005178i 4500 001 73E0534AF92F11ED9B9A064150ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230523010241 008 230111s2023 nyu b 001 0deng 010 $a 2023000177 020 $a 1982122919 020 $a 9781982122911 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a D769.N457 $b 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20230124 100 1 $a Nelson, Craig, $d 1955- $e author. $9 134781 245 10 $a V IS FOR VICTORY : $b FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT'S AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE TRIUMPH OF WORLD WAR II / $c Craig Nelson. 250 $a First Scribner hardcover edition. 263 $a 2305 264 1 $a New York : $b Scribner, $c 2023. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2023/05/23 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Foundation -- Like the first chapter of Genesis -- The world at your feet -- The road to Pearl Harbor -- When the light falls -- The Amazon and apple of their eyes -- How to make America first -- Let sleeping dogs lie through their teeth -- From sacrificeto victory-- The gun in her purse -- Infamy, and aftermath -- The first victories -- Have you considered a career in supply-chain management? -- Into the lands of the Normen -- Coda. 520 $a "New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, "the arsenal of democracy" that won World War II. As Nazi Germany began to conquer Europe, America's military was unprepared, too small, and poorly supplied. The Nazis were supported by robust German factories that created a seemingly endless flow of arms, trucks, tanks, airplanes, and submarines. The United States, emerging from the Great Depression, was skeptical of American involvement in Europe and not ready to wage war. Hardened isolationists predicted disaster if the country went to war. In thisfascinating and deeply researched account, Craig Nelson traces how Franklin D. Roosevelt steadily and sometimes secretively put America on a war footing by convincing America's top industrialists such as Henry Ford Jr. to retool their factories, by diverting the country's supplies of raw materials to the war effort, and above all by convincing the American people to endure shortages, to work in wartime factories, and to send their sons into harm's way. Within a few years, the nation's workers were producing thousands of airplanes and tanks, hundreds of warships and submarines. Under FDR's resolute leadership, victory at land and sea and air across the globe began at home in America-a powerful and essential narrative largely overlooked in conventional histories of the war but which, in Nelson's skilled, authoritative hands, becomes an illuminating and important work destined to become an American history classic"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Roosevelt, Franklin D. $q (Franklin Delano), $d 1882-1945. $9 7001 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z United States. $9 80780 650 0 $a Industrial mobilization $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Economic aspects $z United States. $9 82349 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1933-1945. $9 73346 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Nelson, Craig, 1955- $t V is for victory $b First Scribner hardcover edition. $d New York : Scribner, 2023 $z 9781982122935 $w (DLC) 2023000178 941 $a 12 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509012814.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409044436.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314025246.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20231025014833.0 952 $l SXPC124 $d 20230920010540.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230802010616.0 952 $l SQPC104 $d 20230725011600.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011742.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20230606011558.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230606011211.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230603010154.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230523012119.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=73E0534AF92F11ED9B9A064150ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search