The Resource The American home front, 1941-1942, Alistair Cooke
The American home front, 1941-1942, Alistair Cooke
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The item The American home front, 1941-1942, Alistair Cooke represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item The American home front, 1941-1942, Alistair Cooke represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Cooke, a newly naturalized citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing a monumental change. He wanted to "see what the war had done to people, to the towns I might go through, to some jobs and crops, to stretches of landscape I loved and had seen at peace; and to let significance fall where it might." Working throughout the war, Cooke finished the manuscript as the atomic bomb was being dropped on Hiroshima. His publisher at the time thought there would be little interest in books on the war, and so it was stuffed in a closet for almost sixty years, until shortly before Cooke's death. Meanwhile, he had become one of the most widely read chroniclers of America, and his record of a lost country are captivating.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- xx, 327 p.
- Note
-
- Includes index
- Map on lining papers
- Contents
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- Westward the course of empire
- The Pacific Northwest
- The Great Plains
- From wheat to steel
- The rise and fall of New England
- Epilogue: four months in 1945
- Envoi
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction to a war
- A passport to the people
- Through the Appalachians to the pioneers
- Deep down South
- The Gulf Coast
- The Southwest
- Isbn
- 9780871139399
- Label
- The American home front, 1941-1942
- Title
- The American home front, 1941-1942
- Statement of responsibility
- Alistair Cooke
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Cooke, a newly naturalized citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing a monumental change. He wanted to "see what the war had done to people, to the towns I might go through, to some jobs and crops, to stretches of landscape I loved and had seen at peace; and to let significance fall where it might." Working throughout the war, Cooke finished the manuscript as the atomic bomb was being dropped on Hiroshima. His publisher at the time thought there would be little interest in books on the war, and so it was stuffed in a closet for almost sixty years, until shortly before Cooke's death. Meanwhile, he had become one of the most widely read chroniclers of America, and his record of a lost country are captivating.--From publisher description
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1908-2004
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cooke, Alistair
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Cooke, Alistair
- World War, 1939-1945
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Label
- The American home front, 1941-1942, Alistair Cooke
- Note
-
- Includes index
- Map on lining papers
- Contents
-
- Westward the course of empire
- The Pacific Northwest
- The Great Plains
- From wheat to steel
- The rise and fall of New England
- Epilogue: four months in 1945
- Envoi
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction to a war
- A passport to the people
- Through the Appalachians to the pioneers
- Deep down South
- The Gulf Coast
- The Southwest
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- xx, 327 p.
- Isbn
- 9780871139399
- Lccn
- 2005058860
- Other control number
- 9780871139399
- Other physical details
- ill., map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocm62741573
- Label
- The American home front, 1941-1942, Alistair Cooke
- Note
-
- Includes index
- Map on lining papers
- Contents
-
- Westward the course of empire
- The Pacific Northwest
- The Great Plains
- From wheat to steel
- The rise and fall of New England
- Epilogue: four months in 1945
- Envoi
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction to a war
- A passport to the people
- Through the Appalachians to the pioneers
- Deep down South
- The Gulf Coast
- The Southwest
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- xx, 327 p.
- Isbn
- 9780871139399
- Lccn
- 2005058860
- Other control number
- 9780871139399
- Other physical details
- ill., map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocm62741573
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