Main entry:

Vogel, Steve, 1960-

Title & Author:

The Pentagon : a history : the untold story of the wartime race to build the Pentagon--and to restore it sixty years later / Steve Vogel.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Random House, ©2007.

Description:

xxv, 626 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-606) and index.
Prelude -- The making of the Pentagon -- Dynamite in a Tiffany box -- The Somervell blitz -- Dream building -- Carrying L'Enfant's banner -- A first-class battle -- Hell's bottom -- Under way -- The view from high and low -- They wouldn't dare attack Pearl Harbor -- The big push -- The plank walkers -- Hell-an-gone -- One of the worst blunders of the war -- The race to move in the high command -- Headquarters for the war -- What to do with the Pentagon. -- The remaking of the Pentagon -- No decent peace -- The battle of the Pentagon -- The remaking of the Pentagon -- September 11, 2001 -- The Phoenix project -- Epilogue.

Summary:

The creation of the Pentagon in seventeen whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of manpower, resources, and minds, creating an institution that ranks with a handful of other structures as symbols recognized around the world. In July 1941, the Army construction chief sprang the idea of building a single, huge headquarters that could house the entire War Department, then scattered in seventeen buildings around Washington. The Pentagon's post-World War II history is told through its critical moments, including the troubled birth of the Department of Defense during the Cold War, the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the tumultuous 1967 protest against the Vietnam War. The attack of September 11 is related with new details, as is the race to rebuild the damaged Pentagon, a restoration that echoed the spirit of its creation.--From publisher description.

ISBN:

9781400063031 (acid-free paper)
1400063035 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Pentagon (Va.) History.
United States. Department of Defense Procurement History.
Pentagon (Virg.) Histoire.
Pentagon (Va.)
United States. Department of Defense.
USA Department of Defense
United States Dept. of Defense History.
USA / Verteidigungsministerium.
United States Dept. of Defense Procurement History.
Public buildings United States Design and construction History 20th century.
Buildings Repair and reconstruction History.
Armed Forces Procurement.
Buildings Repair and reconstruction.
Public buildings Design and construction.
Hauptgebäude
Public buildings United States Design and construction History.
Buildings Maintenance and repair History.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252073
Call No.: BIB 181378
Status: Available