1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War

295 Pages·2016·3.803 MB·English

by  Marc Wortman

1941
Fighting the Shadow War
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1941
Fighting the Shadow War
A Divided America in a World at War
Marc Wortman
Atlantic Monthly Press
New York
Copyright © 2016 by Marc Wortman
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For my children, Rebecca and Charlie, thoughtful readers
“. . . public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail;
without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who molds public sentiment
goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes
statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.”
—Abraham Lincoln
First Lincoln-Douglas Debate,
August 21, 1858
Contents
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Introduction: 1941
Chapter 1: Foreign Correspondents
Chapter 2: A New World
Chapter 3: “That Prophecy Comes True”
Chapter 4: Unneutral Acts
Chapter 5: Scooping Hitler
Chapter 6: Blitzkrieg Propaganda
Chapter 7: Shadowed by the G-Men
Chapter 8: The Roosevelt Brand
Chapter 9: Cassandra
Chapter 10: A Rising Sun
Chapter 11: Prairie Fire
Chapter 12: “Aviation, Geography, and Race”
Chapter 13: Indictments
Chapter 14: The Garden Hose
Chapter 15: How Do You Do?
Chapter 16: Intolerance
Chapter 17: Good Americanism
Chapter 18: Living in a Nightmare
Chapter 19: Volunteers
Chapter 20: The Strongest Fortress in the World
Chapter 21: Geographers
Chapter 22: Son of a Harness Maker
Chapter 23: The Obvious Conclusion
Chapter 24: At Last We’ve Gotten Together
Chapter 25: The Rattlesnakes of the Atlantic
Chapter 26: Tennō
Chapter 27: The Undeclared War
Chapter 28: Son of Man, Son of God
Chapter 29: East Wind, Rain
Epilogue: Rendezvous with Destiny
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
Picture Acknowledgments
Index
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