| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
xx, 327 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
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Map on lining papers. |
| Contents |
Introduction to a war -- A passport to the people -- Through the Appalachians to the pioneers -- Deep down South -- Gulf Coast -- Southwest -- Westward the course of empire -- Pacific Northwest -- Great Plains -- From wheat to steel -- Rise and fall of New England . |
| 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. |
| Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
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United States. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
1918-1945 |
| Subject |
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1933-1945 |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
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History. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
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Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004 -- Travel -- United States.
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Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004. |
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Travel. |
| ISBN |
0871139391 |
| Standard No. |
9780871139399 |
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