Bibliograph

Victory City, a history of New York and New Yorkers during World War II, John Strausbaugh

Type

Label

Victory City, a history of New York and New Yorkers during World War II, John Strausbaugh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Victory City

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1035770988

Responsibility statement

John Strausbaugh

Sub title

a history of New York and New Yorkers during World War II

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

Classification