The Annals of America 16
1940-1949: The Second World War and after The Second World War and after
- Chicago : Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2003.
- 22 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
16 of 22 volumes; each volume has separate title.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1940: The Irresponsibles / Archibald MacLeish; Stop Hitler Now! ; The Hand That Held the Dagger / Franklin D. Roosevelt; "Nightmare at Noon" / Stephen Vincent Benet; Collective Bargaining and Industrial Democracy / Philip Murray; "Union Maid" / Woody Guthrie; Education for a Classless Society / James Bryant Conant; The Destroyer Deal / Franklin D. Roosevelt; Martin, Barton, and Fish / Franklin D. Roosevelt; Proposal for Lend-Lease / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- 1941: The Four Freedoms / Franklin D. Roosevelt; The Menace of Lend-Lease / Burton K. Wheeler; Lend-Lease and National Defense / Frank Knox; The Defense of Economic Freedom / Joseph C. O'Mahoney; American and the War / Robert M. Hutchins; America First / Charles A. Lindbergh; Free Speech in America / Zechariah Chafee; Why We Refused to Register for the Draft / Donald Benedict, et al. ; Discrimination in Wartime Employment / Franklin D. Roosevelt; How the Blues Came To Be / W.C. Handy; The Atlantic Charter; Total National Defense / Franklin D. Roosevelt; Opposition to the Roosevelt War Policies / Robert A. Taft; Request for a Declaration of War / Franklin D. Roosevelt : Message to Congress; Fireside Chat -- 1942: "The Gift Outright" / Robert Frost; The Pay-As-You-Go Income Tax Plan / Beardsley Ruml; Evangelical Christianity / Harold J. Ockenga; Leonardo Da Disney / David Low; "University" / Karl Shapiro; African American March on Washington: Why Should We March? / A. Philip Randolph; Program of the March on Washington Movement War Songs: "I Got My Questionnairy"; "Gee, But I Want To Go Home"; "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)" / Lew Brown, Charlie Tobias, and Sam H. Stept; "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" / Frank Loesser -- 1943: The Casablanca Conference / Franklin D. Roosevelt; Jobs, Freedom, and Opportunity / Frederick C. Crawford; "Talking Union"; What Happened to Price Control? / Michael Darrock; West Virginia Board of Education et al. v. Barnette et al. / R.H. Jackson, Hugo Black, W.O. Douglas, and Felix Frankfurter; What Should You Bring Overseas? / Bill Steele; Americans at War / Ernie Pyle; American Radio Traitors / William L. Shirer; Foreign Policy and Vital Interests / Walter Lippmann; Toward One World / Wendell L. Willkie -- 1943-1944: Modern Painting in America: The Dynamic American Scene / Stuart Davis; Aesthetic Credo / Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko; Universal Art / Jackson Pollock -- 1944: A New Bill of Rights / Franklin D. Roosevelt; The G.I. Bill of Rights / Frank T. Hines; Entertainers at the Front / John Desmond; What a Free-Enterprise System Is and Is Not / William Benton; The Tennessee Valley Authority / David E. Lilienthal; Korematsu v. United States / H. Black, F. Frankfurter, F. Murphy, and R.H. Jackson; American Schooling / Denis W. Brogan; African American Leadership in North and South / Gunnar Myrdal; Democracy and the Children of Light / Reinhold Niebuhr; Poetical Reflections on America: "plato told" ; "a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse" / E.E. Cummings; Christmas 1944 / E.B. White -- 1945: Should the Government Guarantee Employment? / Robert A. Taft; An Economic Bill of Rights / Henry A. Wallace; The Defects of Civil Service / John Fischer; General and Special Education in a Free Society; Public Relations / Ralph B. Wagner; Architecture of Democracy / Frank Lloyd Wright; The Yalta Agreement; The Act of Chapultepec; The Future of Puerto Rico / Luis Munoz-Marin; Second Thoughts About Atomic Power; Charter of the United Nations; Sovereignty and the United Nations / Arthur H. Vandenberg; Announcement of the Dropping of an Atomic bomb on Hiroshima / Harry S. Truman; Atomic bomb on Nagasaki / William L. Laurence; Today the Guns are Silent / Douglas MacArthur; The Control of Atomic Energy; Postwar Foreign Policy / Harry S. Truman; Our Worst Wartime Mistake / Eugene V. Rostow; The Pearl Harbor Controversy / Allan Nevins - 1946: Pilot Lights of the Apocalypse / Louis N. Ridenour; A Choice Between the Quick and the Dead / Bernard M. Baruch; The iron Curtain / Winston Churchill; The Price of Peace / Henry A. Wallace; Call for a central Intelligence Agency / William J. Donovan; Themes of American Realism / James T. Farrell; Responsibilities of Broadcasting; United States v. Lovett, Watson, and Dodd / Hugo Black; "Hallelujah I'm A-Travelin'" -- 1947: Objections to Industry-Wide Collective Bargaining / Walter B. Weisenburger; Analysis of the Taft-Hartley Act / Robert A. Taft; The "Labor Monopoly" Issue / Richard A. Lester; "Sixteen Tons" / Merle Travis; The Truman Doctrine / Harry S. Truman; The Marshall Plan / George C. Marshall; Sources of Soviet Conduct / George F. Kennan; Loyalty Order / Harry S. Truman; The Menace of the Communist Party / J. Edgar Hoover; Who Is Loyal to America? / Henry Steele Commager; This I Deeply Believe / David E. Lilienthal; Racial Discrimination in Washington, D.C.; Public Service / Thomas E. Dewey; Paternalism in Government; Community / Percival and Paul Goodman; Americans and Their Myths / Jean Paul Sartre -- 1948: On the Unsuitability of Military Men for Public Office / Dwight D. Eisenhower; Liberalism and a Free Society / Henry C. Simons; Civil Rights Message / Harry S. Truman; Desegregation of the Armed Forces / Harry S. Truman; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Collective Security Within the United States / Arthur H. Vandenberg; An Open Letter to Russian Colleagues / Albert Einstein; House Un-American Activities committee Report on Communism; "Wasn't That A Time" / Lee Hayes and Walter Lowenfels; Sound / E.B. White; Vernacular Art / John Kouwenhoven; Goodbye to America / Simone de Beauvoir -- 1949: Inaugural Address / Harry S. Truman; The Republican Party / Robert A. Taft; The Emerging Common Law of Free Enterprise / Adolf A. Berle; An Indictment of American Education / Bernard Iddings Bell; Debate on the North Atlantic Treaty: For the Treaty / Dean Acheson; Against the Treaty / Robert A. Taft; The Point Four Program / Harry S. Truman; Professors on Probation / Alexander Meiklejohn; A Generation on Trial / Alistair Cooke; Due Notice to the FBI / Bernard De Voto; The United Nations / Eleanor Roosevelt; The Capital of the World / E.B. White. Index of Authors.
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