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Washington Goes to War
 
Washington Goes to War
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Washington Goes to War

by David Brinkley
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing (1999-04-12)
ISBN: 0517382113
EAN: 9780517382110
Binding/Media: Hardcover
Release Date: 1999-04-12
SKU: 07_716
Condition: New
Comments: --THE HARDBACK BOOK WITH A DUST COVER!-- 1ST EDITION. 1988. THE HARDBACK BOOK, DUST COVER AND PAGES ARE IN PERFECT CONDITION, CLEAN AND TIGHT. SHIPPED RAPIDLY BY EXPEDITED POSTAL MAIL, AND BY AIR MAIL, ALSO TO APO/AFO.

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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.


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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.
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