Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
- ISBN-10
- 1455567469
- ISBN-13
- 9781455567461
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-12-04
- Publisher
- Twelve
- Author
- John Strausbaugh
Description
From 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.
Get the book
Similar books
-
City of Victory: The Story of Colchester, Britain's First Roman Town
By Philip CrummyColchester - Trachtgeschichte - Bevölkerungsgeschichte - Sakralgebäude.
-
The Fort
By Adrian GoldsworthyAD 105: Dacia. Centurion Flavius Ferox commands an isolated fort beyond the Danube. First in a new adventure trilogy set on the frontier of the Roman Empire.
-
Hometown Victory: A Coach's Story of Football, Fate, and Coming Home
By Justin Spizman, Keanon LoweThe Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak.
-
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
By Edward GlaeserIn this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in both cultural and economic terms) places to live.
-
Bearcity: The Novel
By Lawrence FerberA hirsute Sex and the City set in the "Bear" scene, this story brings together these men, their friends, tricks, and lovers, and a cast of colorful, hirsute characters.
-
Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory: Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court
By Valerie StokerAlthough the empire has been commonly viewed as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious ...
-
City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War
By John StrausbaughPaterson, NJ: Van Derhoven & Holms, 1863. Stiles, T. J. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. ... John P. Jewett & Co., 1854. Styple, William B. The Little Bugler. Kearny, NJ: Belle Grove Publishing, 1998.
-
Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War
By Robert Alan GurvalFrom earliest tradition and practice , the deep and severe tones of the lyre in the Dorian mode of music were associated with war and battle ; the lighter and sweeter sounds of flutes and pipes in the Phrygian mode were more suited to ...
-
Homo Luminous
By Mike FrostDavid Werden wants nothing more than to lead a quiet, ordinary life.
-
Victory Chimp: A Book
By Neil HagertyA sci-fi trip to all the everyday dimensions finds this escapade starring Victory Chimp, master of the multiverse.