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Author:

Lindop, Edmund.

Title:

America in the 1940s / Edmund Lindop with Margaret J. Goldstein.

Publisher:

Twenty-First Century Books,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

144 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Subject:

United States--History--1940-1949--Juvenile literature.
Nineteen forties--Juvenile literature.
United States--History--1940-1949.
Nineteen forties.

Other Authors:

Goldstein, Margaret J.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-139), filmography (p. 138-139), and index.

Contents:

"Remember Pearl Harbor" : World War II -- Superpower : leading the free world -- Atomic age : science and technology -- Bust to boom : the 1940s economy -- Home fires : civilian life -- Good book : literature of the 1940s -- American scene : art, architecture, and fashion -- Show goes on : the dramatic arts -- "Music, music, music" : song and dance -- America's games : sports in the 1940s.

Summary:

Discusses the political, economic, social, cultural, and technology landscape of the United States in the fifth decade of the 20th century.

Series:

The decades of twentieth-century America

ISBN:

0761329455 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
9780761329459 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)175286389

LCCN:

2007042904

Locations:

REPC017 -- Greenfield Public Library (Greenfield)

RAPD371 -- Jefferson Public Library (Jefferson)

CPPC926 -- Kalona Public Library (Kalona)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)