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Uniting America how FDR and Henry Stimson brought Democrats and Republicans together to win World War II

The untold story of the most crucial bipartisan alliance in United States history. As Adolf Hitler's Nazi armies threatened Europe, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt urged a divided America to mobilize to defend democracy and freedom. Many Republicans accused FDR of leading the nation needl...

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Main Author: Shinkle, Peter (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945.
Stimson, Henry L. > (Henry Lewis), > 1867-1950.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States.
Political leadership > United States > History > 20th century.
Polarization (Social sciences) > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bipartisan alliance during World War II
  • The hunter and the strategist
  • The fight over isolationism
  • Crossing the divide
  • Uniting America
  • A bipartisan call to arms
  • The separate peace
  • "Let the Negro masses march!"
  • Pearl Harbor
  • World War, internal war
  • Women unite for the war effort
  • The double V
  • The US goes on the offensive
  • FDR takes command
  • Willkie takes the stage
  • The 1943 race riots : hate, blood and fire
  • Power, advice and dissent
  • Forging American leadership for D-Day
  • The soldier voting schism
  • A bipartisan vision for American politics
  • The Holocaust and the fight over postwar Germany
  • FDR's last bipartisan campaign
  • Truman, Stimson and the atom bomb
  • Epilogue: The bipartisan alliance and America's future.

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