The Time Between the Wars: Armistice to Pearl Harbor

by Jonathan Daniels

Series:Mainstream of America Series (19)

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A narrative history of the boom and the bust, the Happy Warrior and the forgotten man, Teapot Dome and Huey Long, Roosevelt and Hopkins--from the jazz age and the Depression to Pearl Harbor.

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2557 The Time Between the Wars: Armistice to Pearl Harbor, by Jonathan Daniels (read 5 Dec 1993) This was published in 1966 and covers in a journalistic way the time from Nov. 11, 1918, to Dec 7, 1941. I did not find it told me much I didn't think I already knew.

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