Item #12529 The American Home Front 1941 - 1942. Alistsair Cooke.
The American Home Front 1941 - 1942
The American Home Front 1941 - 1942
The American Home Front 1941 - 1942
The American Home Front 1941 - 1942

The American Home Front 1941 - 1942

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. 6.25"x9.25"x1.25". 327 pages indexed. X-library w/graphics. First printing. White cloth boards. Blue cloth spine w/gilt letters. Map of US as pastedowns. Frontispiece portrait of Alistair Cooke by Ray Lee Jackson. Jacket design by Marcia Salo. DJ# 0506. B&W photos throughout. Map torn inside back cover. Scrape to front of DJ. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Unclipped, unmarked. Boards slightly curved out. Red dot on top edge. Collectible - VeryGood / VeryGood. Item #12529
ISBN: 9780871139399

"From the famous BBC correspondent and television host comes a remarkably insightful and detailed firsthand portrait of America during the early days of World War II. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Alistair Cooke, a newly naturalized American citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing monumental change. Cooke traveled small highways, with their advertising signs and their local topography, in an age before the interstate highway system.
In The American Home Front — a fascinating artifact, a charming travelogue, and a sharp portrait of America — Cooke chronicles the regional glories he encounters and the reactions of the citizens to war, from indifference to grief, from opportunism to resilience under military threat. Filled with touching personal stories of the effects of war, from a Japanese family facing internment that tries to sell Cooke their car, to the experiences of the unemployed relocating in hopes of jobs in a gunpowder factory, The American Home Front is the work of an experienced, talented journalist; it is intelligent, touching, and funny." Goodreads ***3.79.

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