American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 26: AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR

Bibliography

Books

War and American Society. Michael E. Birdwell, Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign Against Nazism (1999). John Morton Blum, V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II (1976). Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch, The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness during World War II (1996); Mark J. Harris et al., The Homefront (1984). Glen Jeansonne, Women of the Far Right: The Mothers' Movement and World War II (1996); John W. Jeffries, Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (1996). David Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War; 1929-1945 (1999). Richard R. Lingeman, Don't You Know There's a War On? (1970). Gerald D. Nash, The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War (1985). Geoffrey Perrett, Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph: The American People, 1939--1945 (1974). Richard Polenberg, War and Society (1972). Bartholomew H. Sparrow, From the Outside In: World War II and the American State (1996). Michael S. Sweeney, Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II (2001). Studs Terkel, "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (1984).

War Mobilization and Wartime Politics. Oscar E. Anderson, Jr., The New World (1962). Ellsworth Barnard, Wendell Willkie (1966). Chester Bowles, Promises to Keep (1971). Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995). David Brinkley, Washington Goes to War (1987). James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1970). Bruce Catton, War Lords of Washington (1946). Lester V. Chandler, Inflation in the United States, 1940--1948 (1951). Alan Clive, State of War: Michigan in World War II (1979). George Q. Flynn, The Mess in Washington: Manpower Mobilization in World War II (1979). Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (1994). Leslie R. Groves, Now It Can Be Told (1962). Howell John Harris, The Right to Manage (1982). Jeffrey Haydu. Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War II (1997). Maurice Isserman, Which Side Were You On? The American Communist Party During World War II (1982). Eliot Janeway, Struggle for Survival (1951). Paul A. C. Koistinen, The Military-Industrial Complex: A Historical Perspective (1980). Philip Knightley, The First Casualty (1975). Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (1982). Donald Nelson, Arsenal of Democracy (1946). Joel Seidman, American Labor from Defense to Reconversion (1953). Bradley F. Smith, The Shadow Warriors: The OSS and the Origins of the CIA (1983). Richard Steele, Propaganda in an Open Society (1985). Patrick S. Washburn, A Question of Sedition: The Federal Government's Investigation of the Black Press During World War II (1986). Michi Weglyn, Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps (1976). Alan M. Winkler, The Politics of Propaganda; The Office of War Information, 1942--1945 (1978).

War and Race. Beth Bailey, and David Farber, The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii (1993). Domenic J. Capeci, Jr., The Harlem Riot of 1943 (1977); Race Relations in Wartime Detroit (1987). Richard M. Dalfiume, Desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces (1969). Roger Daniels, The Politics of Prejudice (1962); Concentration Camps, USA: Japanese Americans and World War II (1971); Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II (1993). John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986). Marc Gallicchio, The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945 (2000). Mario T. Garcia, Mexican-Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930--1960 (1989). Herbert Garfinkel, When Negroes March (1959). Audrie Girdner and Anne Loftis, The Great Betrayal (1969). Bill Hosokawa, Nisei (1969). Peter Irons, Justice at War (1983). Thomas James, Exiles Within: The Schooling of Japanese-Americans, 1942--1945 (1987). Andrew Edmund Kersten. Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-46 (2000). Daniel Kryder, Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II (2000). Valerie J. Matsumoto, Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982 (1993). Philip McGuire, ed., Taps for a Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II (1982). Mauricio Mazon, The Zoot-Suit Riots (1984). August Meier and Elliott Rudwick, CORE (1973). Eric L. Muller, Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II (2001). Gail Williams O'Brien, The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South. (1999). Louis Ruchames, Race, Jobs, and Politics (1953). Barbara Dianne Savage, Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948. (1999). Holly Cowan Shulman, The Voice of America (1991). Neil Wynn, The Afro-American and the Second World War (1976).

Women and the War. Karen Anderson, Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II (1981). D'Ann Campbell, Women at War with America (1984). Sherna B. Gluck, Rosie the Riveter Revisited (1987). Susan Hartmann, The Homefront and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s (1982). Margaret R. Higgonet et al., Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars (1987). Maureen Honey, Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda During World War II (1984). Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II (1987). Susan M. Reverby, Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850--1945 (1987). Leila Rupp, Mobilizing Women for War (1978). Sherrie Tucker, Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s (2000).

Wartime Military and Diplomatic Experiences. Stephen Ambrose, The Supreme Commander (1970); Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect (1983); D-Day: June 6, 1944 (1994). Albert Russell Buchanan, The United States and World War II, 2 vols. (1962). James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1970). Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, 6 vols. (1948--1953). Robert Divine, Roosevelt and World War II (1969); Second Chance (1967). Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe (1948). John S. D. Eisenhower, Allies: Pearl Harbor to D-Day (1982). Kenneth Greenfield, American Strategy in World War II (1963). Allison B. Gilmore, You Can't Fight Tanks With Bayonets: Psychological Warfare against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific (1998). Max Hastings, Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1984). Patrick Heardon, Roosevelt Confronts Hitler: American Entry into World War II (1987). Godfrey Hodgson, The Colonel: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson, 1967--1950 (1990). Michael Howard, The Mediterranean Strategy in World War II (1968). Margaret Hoyle, A World in Flames (1970). D. Clayton James, A Time for Giants: Politics of the American High Command in World War II (1987). John Keegan, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, June 6--August 25, 1944 (1982). Warren Kimball, The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman (1991). E. J. Kind and W. M. Whitehill, Fleet Admiral King (1952). Charles B. McDonald, The Mighty Endeavor (1969). William Manchester, American Caesar (1979). Samuel Eliot Morison, Strategy and Compromise (1958); History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, 14 vols. (1947--1960); The Two Ocean War (1963). Geoffrey Perret, There's a War to Be Won: The United States Army in World War II (1991). Forrest Pogue, George C. Marshall, 2 vols. (1963--1966). Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (1981). Fletcher Pratt, War for the World (1951). Cornelius Ryan, The Longest Day (1959); The Last Battle (1966). Ronald Schaffer, Wings of Judgment: American Bombing in World War II (1985). Michael Schaller, The United States Crusade in China, 1938--1945 (1979). Michael Sherry, Preparing for the Next War: American Plans for Postwar Defense, 1941--1945 (1977); The Rise of American Air Power (1987). Albert Isaac Slomovitz, The Fighting Rabbis: Jewish Military Chaplains and American History (1999). Gaddis Smith, American Diplomacy During the Second World War (1964). Ronald H. Spector, Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan (1985). Mark A. Stoler, The Politics of the Second Front: Planning and Diplomacy in Coalition Warfare, 1941--1945 (1977); Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance and U.S. Strategy in World War II (2000). Christopher Thorne, Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain and the War Against Japan, 1941--1945 (1978). John Toland, The Last Hundred Days (1966); The Rising Sun (1970). Barbara Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971). Russell Weigley, The American Way of War (1973); Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944--1945 (1981). Chester Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe (1952). David S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941--1945 (1984).

Atomic Warfare. Gar Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy (1965); The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth (1995). Nuel Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer (1969). Robert Donovan, Conflict and Crisis (1977). Herbert Feis, The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II (1966). Gregg Herken, The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War (1980). John Hersey, Hiroshima (1946). Robert Jungk, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns (1958). Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1987); Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (1995). W. S. Schoenberger, Decision of Destiny (1969). Martin Sherwin, A World Destroyed (1975). Leon V. Sigal, Fighting to a Finish (1988).

Films

America & the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference (PBS Video, American Experience, 1994). D-Day (PBS Video, American Experience, 1994). The Homefront (Churchill Films, 1985). Without Due Process (New Dimension Media, 1991).

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