V is for victory : Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the triumph of World War II

Title V is for victory : Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the triumph of World War II
Names Nelson, Craig.
Book Number DB120719
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Annotation "Historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, "the arsenal of democracy" that won World War II. As Nazi Germany began to conquer Europe, America's military was unprepared, too small, and poorly supplied. The Nazis were supported by robust German factories that created a seemingly endless flow of arms, trucks, tanks, airplanes, and submarines. The United States, emerging from the Great Depression, was skeptical of American involvement in Europe and not ready to wage war. Hardened isolationists predicted disaster if the country went to war. In this fascinating and deeply researched account, Craig Nelson traces how Franklin D. Roosevelt steadily and sometimes secretively put America on a war footing by convincing America's top industrialists such as Henry Ford Jr. to retool their factories, by diverting the country's supplies of raw materials to the war effort, and above all by convincing the American people to endure shortages, to work in wartime factories, and to send their sons into harm's way. Within a few years, the nation's workers were producing thousands of airplanes and tanks, hundreds of warships and submarines. Under FDR's resolute leadership, victory at land and sea and air across the globe began at home in America--a powerful and essential narrative largely overlooked in conventional histories of the war but which, in Nelson's skilled, authoritative hands, becomes an illuminating and important work destined to become an American history classic"-- Provided by publisher -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Narrator Graybill, Stephen.
Local Subject United States - 973
History - United States - HUS
History, U.S. - 20th Century - HUT
History - World - HWO
War-fiction or nonfiction - WAR
War--American Military History - WAM
War--World War Two - WWT
Exclusion - Male Narrator - MN
Exclusion - Long Book - LO
Current Talking Book Topics - TBT
LC Subject World War, 1939-1945 - United States
Industrial mobilization - United States - History - 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 - Economic aspects - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1933-1945
Biographies
Talking books
Nonfiction
Call Number 973.917 ANF
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2023 9781797157481 2023
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