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Pearl Harbor : FDR leads the nation into war / Steven M. Gillon.

Title
Pearl Harbor : FDR leads the nation into war / Steven M. Gillon.
Author
Gillon, Steven M.
Publication
New York : Basic Books, c2011.

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Description
xvi, 224 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
Explores the anxious and emotional events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, showing how the president and the American public responded in the pivotal hours that followed the attack.
Subject
  • 1939-1945
  • Geschichte 1941
  • Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
  • Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945 > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars -- Do not let the talks deteriorate -- This means war -- This is no drill! -- Have you heard the news? -- I don't know how secure this phone is -- Infamy -- Get to the White House fastasyoucan -- Do you think we ought to have soldiers around the White House? -- We are all in the same boat now -- Deadly calm -- I will go down in disgrace -- 1861 -- Where were our forces -- asleep -- I hope Mr. Capone doesn't mind -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 9780465021390 (alk. paper)
  • 0465021395 (alk. paper)
  • 9780465028078 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
  • 0465028071 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2011025004
OCLC
701015461
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library