Jumat, 21 April 2017

WWII Book Review: Those Angry Days

Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939–1941 By Lynne Olson. 576 pp. Random House, 2013. $30.  Now that World War II has been enshrined as The Good War fought by The Greatest Generation, it can be hard to remember that millions of Americans avidly opposed entering it— and even …

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