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| | Washington Goes to War |  | Author: David Brinkley
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Category: Book
Buy Used: $3.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 197958
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
ISBN: 0517382113
EAN: 9780517382110
ASIN: 0517382113
Publication Date: April 12, 1999
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Amazon.com Review
This book of the just-retired newsman's reminiscences of Washington at the dawn of America's involvement in World War II is no mere historical curiosity shop. It's very instructive about the way Washington still works. For instance, Brinkley tells us that in September 1941, while FDR was still wavering about where to put the military's new headquarters building, an Army general told the contractor to get started. By the time Roosevelt found out about this a month later, the foundations for the Pentagon had already been put in place.
Product Description
Though it is today the hub of international affairs and government, Washington, D.C. was once little more than a small Southern town that happened to host our nationally elected officials. Award-winning journalist David Brinkley remembers what it was like--how Washington awoke from its slumber and found itself with a war on its hands. Washington had to print the paper, alphabetize the bureaucracies, host the parties, pitch the propaganda, write the laws, launch the drives, draft the boys, hire the "government girls," and engage in an often hilarious administrative war of words, wit, and even wisdom.
From the Paperback edition.
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 Brinkley's "Washington Goes to War" a Winner January 14, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fascinating account of life in Washington, DC during WWII.
Great Book!! November 10, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great book.......I see the there can be humor in all things...even World War II.
 Working together all by ourselves November 15, 2005
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
The myth, a myth that I had been taught and which continues to be the popular belief, of all America working together during the big war is certainly exploded in Brinkley's tome. Brinkley's insight explains why some black folks still do not like white folks...not that I blame them. If I were African American, I would not like me either. America apparently did not like women much either, although they were better tolerated than racial minorities. Our local book club could not find any glaring factual errors, anyhow. Reading how each interest often worked for itself and against other interests makes me wonder how we managed to win the war after all. Brinkley's book is a bit slow going, but it is a detailed resource which should be read by students of U.S. history as well as the general public.
Excellent on the merits January 13, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
By sheer coincidence, I read Ben Bradlee's memoir, A GOOD LIFE, Andy Rooney's MY WAR and David Brinkley's WASHINGTON GOES TO WAR in immediate succession.Each of these books covers a different aspect of America's involvement in World War II. Taken as a grouping, these three may be the definitive report of the social history of the moment, as impacted by that War. Obviously, Tom Brokaw's book of individual reminiscences, THE GREATEST GENERATION, must be included with this list as well. In common with all of these others, David Brinkley, too, is an excellent writer who makes history lively and interesting. As with each of the other books mentioned in this group, WASHINGTON GOES TO WAR can stand alone on its own merits. Yet each of these books gains synergistically by being read in tandem with the others. This was a fascinating moment in modern history, and David Brinkley tells tales that most readers would have no other way of learning.
Great Read January 21, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is one fun book. Brinkley is able to re-create how Washington DC went from a sleepy village to the thriving community it is now. Read how those crummy government buildings were only supposed to be temporary. How those girls came for work from the farms, bought leg makeup, and stayed. How the Japanese and German ambassadors were placed under guard in a mansion and still couldn't get along. Recommended to anyone who has an interest in the homefront during WWII.
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