San Antonio College Library

Text and illustrations depict life in the United States during World War II.

American infatuation with the 1920s continues. As the time interval since that decade gets longer, interest grows greater. Were the Twenties a "side show," a quaint but irrelevant detour off the main road of history highlighted by The Lost Generation, Prohibition, The Golden Age of Sport, and The Jazz Age? Or were they, on the contrary, the first clear evidence of what we mean by "modern?" In this new study, Paul A. Carter brings together a collection...

Examines the ways in which American culture and politics on the home front affected the course of World War II, discussing the selling of the war, the creation of the GI hero, the benefits of the wartime economy, attitudes toward immigrants, and other topics.

Chronicles the shifts in styles, moods, tastes, emotions, and opinions on the American home front during World War II.

"The Thirties presents a number of different and often contradictory social facets with photograhs and dialogue."--

Features essays, statistical data, period photographs, maps, advertisements, and documents.

Flirtatious blonde Trudy Kockenlocker is disappointed that her father, gruff town constable Ed Kockenlocker, won't let her go to an army dance. She outwits him by getting nerdy Norval Jones--who's had a crush on Trudy since they were teenagers--to take her to the movies, so she can slip out to the dance. The soldiers spike the lemonade and Trudy dances with a number of GIs. During one boogie-woogie number, Trudy's energetic partner tosses her in the...

Presents 180 full-color photographs from the Library of Congress's Farm Security Administration collection, taken by FSA photographers from 1939 to 1943, creating a portrait of America as it began to emerge from the Great Depression and prepared to fightWorld War II.