Research Catalog

Title

Home front memo / Carl Sandburg.

Author

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

Publication

• New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1943]
• ©1943

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

x pages, 310 pages, 16 leaves : illustrations; 20.2 cm

Summary

A collection of the author's pamphlets, speeches, broadcasts, poems, etc.

Subject

• Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > United States
• United States

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• speeches (documents)
• Poetry.
• Tracts (Ephemera)
• Speeches.
• Dust jackets (Binding)
• Poésie.
• Tracts.
• Discours.

Note

• First edition.
• Bound in blue cloth; stamped in white. Dust jacket.
• Purchased from Gilman, Crompond, N.Y.
• A collection of pamphlets, speeches, broadcasts, newspaper columns, etc.

Contents

The unfathomed Lincoln -- What would Lincoln do now? -- Turmoils of an earlier day -- The latest light on Lincoln's religion -- Birth dates of Lincoln folk authenticated -- Mr. Longfellow and his boy -- On the platform and in the air waves -- What is humanity's greatest need today? -- Election-eve broadcast -- A picture of the American people -- Chicago stadium speech -- The dream that holds us -- Wings for Norway -- Tribute to Bill Mahon and the amalgamated -- Meditation at Arlington -- Once-a-week pieces for the papers -- "We can't see that far" -- For a while we must drift -- Virginia Woolf's personal decision -- Neg Cochran and other independents -- A long war or short -- Murderers of books -- Mental anguish, sincere people, and a mother with four sons -- Nations have been outfought - and outthought -- The kalsominer is still correct -- Bruddah Thomas and our jitters -- What songs shall we sing? -- Little commencement speech -- Pure American hybrid -- Mirages over the Russian marshes -- New traditions for old -- The changing world jigsaw -- Godless Russia and godly America -- The council for democracy -- The job of chief magistrate -- Bill White's kneebones -- "Sure we're neutral - who for?" -- Inside a Nazi youth mind -- For us the living -- "Stop his mouth with a corncob" -- Far horizons -- Time will tell us -- Charlie Chaplin owns himself -- The bear that walks like a man -- Hitler cannot conquer Russia -- Human rather than neutral are the Swedes -- Invisible motives -- Labor leadership -- Hitler and Huey -- One-string cello -- National unity -- Mr. Johnson's book is independent as a hog on ice -- Amazing Russia -- The free world favors Christmas -- Always waits the unforeseen -- Hitler's man-killing job -- Russia got production -- The road to Vitebsk -- Morale is where you find it -- The rise of the common man -- Production boss -- Planes come first -- "Give us this day our daily croak" -- The air arm as partner -- New styles in war and training -- Complacency too is where you find it -- "We cannot hallow this ground" -- The new rank and file -- The press and the reading public -- How to read a newspaper -- Why do men fight? -- Dreaming bones -- Education's new and different -- History - take a chance -- Herrenvolk -- Harvest of hate -- Quart of milk -- Weep not for me- -- Lidice -- Air power keeps changing -- Pigeons, silence, and spies -- Take a letter to Dmitri Shostakovich -- Race issues and the color line -- Swedes who cannot be silent -- Scandinavian scenes -- The man with the broken fingers -- The son of the man with the broken fingers -- And who writes the editorials? -- Washington is like that -- Getting tough -- "Do you want to live forever?" -- Negro opportunity -- Washington is hell -- The hot-potato questions -- They watch the sky -- The colonel's wife -- Election as usual -- Artists of the people -- Embarkation-port jitters -- Americanized Japanese -- Sleigh bells in the snow -- Chaplin and Johnston: troubled men -- Legend of faith -- "Am I my brother's keeper?" -- The common man through a Vatican prism -- Our global thinking changes -- Fighting youth and their future -- Beyond the limits of violence -- What was George Washington's course? -- What has posterity done for us? -- Tomorrow belongs to the children -- Mei-ling - look at her and listen -- If we can be sober, patient -- One lone little woman from China -- The new world will be air-minded -- A terrible adventure and a new one -- Poets major and minor -- Jefferson's surest memorial -- Earth-shaking events to come -- Fighting and home fronts -- Past and present odd numbers -- "Don't solidify it" -- George Washington wishes for global peace -- Immeasurable self-restraint -- Who does a zoot suit suit? -- The Chicago Times syndicate - a personal note -- Poems: legends: folklore -- Blue sky over Scotland -- Night over Europe -- Is there any easy road to freedom? -- Freedom is a habit -- American knowhow -- Bronze wood -- Youth and pioneers: an ode -- The American fable of the two maggots, one of them getting a nice break -- Elephants are different to different people -- Scroll -- Time scheme -- Transatlantic call -- The fireborn are at home in fire -- Road to victory -- Commentary -- Pictures and text.

LCCN

43051258

OCLC

• ocm04653428
• 4653428
• SCSB-8924947

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library