1940 : FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler--the election amid the storm / Susan Dunn.
1940 : FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler--the election amid the storm / Susan Dunn.
1940 : FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler--the election amid the storm / Susan Dunn.
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New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2013.
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2013.
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G 2013/3756
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English
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viii, 418 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Mystery in the White House -- George Washington and Franklin Roosevelt: duty or ambition? -- Walking on eggs -- Lindbergh and the shrimps -- Isolationists: the war within -- Dark horse -- Home run for the White House -- The Republicans in Philadelphia -- Roosevelt's game -- The Democrats in Chicago...
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New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2013.
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Connecticut
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2013.
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The spellbinding story of the Roosevelt-Willkie election season, when bitterly divided Americans debated the fate of the nation and the world.
"In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency--Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term, and talented Republican businessman Wendell Willkie--found themselves on the defensive against American isolationists and their charismatic spokesman Ch...
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1940 : FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler--the election amid the storm / Susan Dunn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2013/3756
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74VKqOmMAV6y
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0300190867 (hbk.)
9780300190861 (hbk.)
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973.917
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991020225309702626
