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Title: Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory by Clara Marie Allen, Constance Bowman, Sandra M. Gilbert, Constance Bowman Reid ISBN: 156098368X Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: A First Hand Account
Comment: This book is a find--a first hand account of two Rosie the Riveters. The contemporaneous memoir of two school teachers who spent the summer of '43 building B-24s in San Diego fascinates with details--getting hired, what was security like in wartime factories, how were these two educated women treated differently when they donned slacks and became factory workers? The writing is quick and humorous, like Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I which has remained popular since 1945. Constance Bowman Reid's epilogue, written in 1999, is a touching finale. You'll want to know what she's been up to in the intervening 50 years.
Rating: 5
Summary: Refreshing look at a unique slice of american history
Comment: This Book evokes a unique time and experience for women in this country. It accurately depicts the rigors and effort that came as a surprise to all of the work force as women pitched in for the war effort. That it is cleverly done with good humor and the ability to poke fun at the situation, makes it even more of a jewel.
Rating: 5
Summary: Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory
Comment: A great Read! Cleverly written and laugh out loud funny. An interesting primary source of history--a must read for WW II enthusiasts. My wife was intrigued by the women's history angle. We both loved the illustrations.
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Title: Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II by Penny Colman ISBN: 0517885670 Publisher: Crown Pub Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: American Women in a World at War: Contemporary Accounts from World War II (Worlds of Women (Paper), No. 1) by Judy Barrett Litoff, David C. Smith ISBN: 0842025715 Publisher: Scholarly Resources Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front by Judy Barrett Litoff, David C. Smith ISBN: 0700607145 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change by Sherna Berger Gluck ISBN: 0452010241 Publisher: New American Library Trade Pub. Date: 1988 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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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: 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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