Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War IIFrom John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings and saboteurs; of Nazi, Fascist, and Communist sympathizers; of war protesters and conscientious objectors; of gangsters and hookers and profiteers; of latchkey kids and bobby-soxers, poets and painters, atomic scientists and atomic spies. While the war launched and leveled nations, spurred economic growth, and saw the rise and fall of global Fascism, New York City would eventually emerge as the new capital of the world. From the Gilded Age to VJ-Day, an array of fascinating New Yorkers rose to fame, from Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Langston Hughes to Joe Louis, to Robert Moses and Joe DiMaggio. In Victory City, John Strausbaugh returns to tell the story of New York City's war years with the same richness, depth, and nuance he brought to his previous books, City of Sedition and The Village, providing readers with a groundbreaking new look into the greatest city on earth during the most transformative -- and costliest -- war in human history. |
Contents
New Deal New York | |
Franklin Rosenfeld of Jew York City | |
If It Can Happen There | |
Life and Death | |
Civil Defense and Amateur Intelligence | |
Bums and Bombers | |
The Mayor and Murder | |
PART THREE Boom Town | |
Day of Infamy | |
The City Mobilizes | |
Youre a Sap Mr | |
Lights | |
Springtime for Mussolini | |
Hitlers New York Friends | |
The Rise and Fall of Fritz Kuhn | |
Paradise for Spies | |
Red Pink Pacifist | |
Cinderella | |
God Bless America | |
PART TWO The Storm Breaks | |
Mr New Yorks Worlds Fair | |
Einsteins Cottage | |
Treason | |
Eagles and Doves | |
Downward Christian Soldiers | |
Blitzkrieg | |
The Last Time I Saw Paris | |
Wendell Willkie vs the Third Termites | |
Hell No They Wont | |
New Yorkers and the Blitz | |
Harry Who? | |
Unlimited Emergency | |
Spies Traitors and a Flying | |
Youre in the Army | |
Boom and Gloom | |
Rosie and Not | |
NoGood Thieving Chiseling Tinhorns | |
Women at | |
Buffaloed Soldiers and Conscientious Objectors | |
Selling the | |
Zoot Suit Killers and a Bobby Sox Riot | |
Banking on Hitler | |
Murder and Massacre | |
A Spy on Staten Island a Riot in Harlem | |
Ghosts | |
The Manhattan Project and Its Moles | |
Clear It with Sidney | |
Endings | |
To Trinity and Beyond | |
PART FOUR | |
Treason on Trial | |
World Capital | |
Photos | |
Notes on Sources | |
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Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II. John Strausbaugh No preview available - 2018 |
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