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Title: Washington Goes to War by David Brinkley ISBN: 0-345-40730-X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 08 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent on the merits
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Read
Comment: 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.
Rating: 4
Summary: How Washington, D.C. became WASHINGTON, DC
Comment: In 1940 Washington, DC was a town that hosted our national government. By the end of 1945 it was a city and the central focus of a government that managed the sixteen million men and women in uniform who fought the Second World War and the other millions who supported the effort at home.
This required office space, housing, entertainment and above all people, people, people. More people than anyone imagined could be supported in our ten mile square federal district.
David Brinkley saw the transformation first hand. People and buildings could literally not be deployed fast enough in our nation's capitol city to keep up with the demands of World War. The effort to accomodate this change is an interesting story told well by the author. The pace and magnitude of change is fascinating to behold. One wonders how the bureaucracy that took a 250,000 man fighting force from wooden training rifles to the millions who had 50,000 aircraft alone to deploy against our enemies were able to undertake this phenominal expansion in reasonably good order. As Brinkley tells it, it was part good old American "can-do" attitude coupled with a near unanimous belief in our mission and dedication to winning the war.
Somehow the City, and the people responsible for running its only true industry (government) managed the task and its transformation fairly well.
Brinkley is a good story teller, and his chronicle of how Washington changed during the war years is also the story of America coming of age. He brings a fresh descriptive narrative to what turns out to be a pretty interesting story.
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Title: David Brinkley by David Brinkley ISBN: 067940693X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 10 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Brinkley's Beat: People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time by David Brinkley ISBN: 0375406441 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion by David Brinkley ISBN: 0345409523 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 07 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: David Brinkley: A Memoir by David Brinkley ISBN: 0679765069 Publisher: Random House Large Print Pub. Date: 10 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (American Ways Series) by John W. Jeffries ISBN: 156663119X Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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