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Title Pearl Harbor : FDR leads the nation into war / Steven M. Gillon.
Author Gillon, Steven M.
Publisher New York : Basic Books, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Description xvi, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm
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 WB-Adult Collection  940.5426 GIL Nearby on shelf  3 0672 00240 2907 11-13-23  AVAILABLE
Note Now a television special on the History channel.
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-212) and index.
Contents "Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars" -- "Do not let the talks deteriorate -- "This means war" -- "This is no drill!" -- "Have you heard the news?" -- "I don't know how secure this phone is" -- "Infamy" -- "Get to the White House fastasyoucan" -- "Do you think we ought to have soldiers around the White House?" -- "We are all in the same boat now" -- "I will go down in disgrace" -- "Deadly calm" -- "1861" -- "Where were our forces-- asleep?" -- "I hope Mr. Capone doesn't mind" -- Epilogue.
Summary Explores the anxious and emotional events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, showing how the president and the American public responded in the pivotal hours that followed the attack.
Subject World War, 1939-1945.
United States -- History, Military.
Japan -- History, Military.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Other title Franklin Delano Roosevelt leads the nation into war.
FDR leads the nation into war.
Franklin D. Roosevelt leads the nation into war.
ISBN 9780465021390
0465021395