Planning the Home Front : Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run / Sarah Jo Peterson.

Main entry:

Peterson, Sarah Jo, author.

Title & Author:

Planning the Home Front : Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run / Sarah Jo Peterson.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Description:

xiv, 358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Historical studies of urban America

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The bomber plant -- The local response to sudden industrialization -- Housing for defense -- The battle for bomber city -- What's wrong with Willow Run? -- Building bombers -- Building communities -- A bomber an hour -- Confronting race.

Summary:

Before Franklin Roosevelt declared December 7 to be a "date which will live in infamy"; before American soldiers landed on D-Day; before the B-17s, B-24s, and B-29s roared over Europe and Asia, there was Willow Run. Located twenty-five miles west of Detroit, the bomber plant at Willow Run and the community that grew up around it attracted tens of thousands of workers from across the United States during World War II. Together, they helped build the nation's "Arsenal of Democracy," but Willow Run also became the site of repeated political conflicts over how to build suburbia while mobilizing for total war. In Planning the Home Front, Sarah Jo Peterson offers readers a portrait of the American people - industrialists and labor leaders, federal officials and municipal leaders, social reformers, industrial workers, and their families - that lays bare the foundations of community, the high costs of racism, and the tangled process of negotiation between New Deal visionaries and wartime planners. By tying the history of suburbanization to that of the home front, Peterson uncovers how the United States planned and built industrial regions in the pursuit of war, setting the stage for the suburban explosion that would change the American landscape when the war was won. -- Book jacket.

ISBN:

9780226025421 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
022602542X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
(e-book)
9780226025568
022602556X (e-book)
9780226025568 (e-book)

Subject:

Willow Run Industrial Complex History.
Willow Run Industrial Complex
Airplane factories Michigan Willow Run.
World War, 1939-1945 Influence.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Influence.
Airplane factories
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Willow Run (Mich.) History 20th century.
Michigan Willow Run

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Historical studies of urban America.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287034
Call No.: BIB 227714
Status: Available

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