Home Front Heroes

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出版者:Greenwood Pub Group
作者:Shearer, Benjamin F. 编
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页数:201
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出版时间:2006-9
价格:$ 310.75
装帧:HRD
isbn号码:9780313334207
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From Rose the Riveter to Robert Oppenheimer and Bob Hope, civilians at home have made a crucial contribution to America's war effort. "Home Front Heroes" brings together brief and focused biographies of 1,000 Americans who affected how the United States made, supported, perceived and protested its major war efforts from the Revolution to GulfWar II. Battlefield victories and defeats are in many ways a reflection of the society waging war. Inventors and scientists, social reformers and clerics, civil rights and labor leaders, nurses and physicians, actors and directors, financiers and industrialists, economists and psychologists, artists and musicians, writers and journalists, have all been soldiers on the home front. The biographical entries highlighting the subjects' wartime contribution are arranged alphabetically. Many of the entries also include suggestions for further reading. Thematic indices make it easy to look up people alphabetically by last name and by war, and other indices list entries under broad categories - Arts and Culture; Business, Industry, and Labor; Nursing and Medicine; Science, Engineering and Inventions - with more detailed occupational background. Entries include...Julia Ward Howe, composer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"; Robert Fulton, inventor of the steam engine and architect of the submarine Nautilus; Martin Brander, maker of Eliot's Saddle Ring Carbine; Robert Parker Parrott, inventor of the Parrott cannon; Stephen Crane, Novelist and War Correspondent; Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee, Founder of the Army Nurse Corps; John Philip Sousa, composer of "Stars and Stripes Forever"; Louis M. Terman, inventor of the IQ test; Reginald Fessenden, developer of a sonic depth finder; Benjamin Hotchkiss, inventor of the machine-gun; John L. Lewis, labor leader; Bob Hope, comedian and USO stalwart; Dr. Ancel Keys, developer of the K ration; Louis F. Fieser, Napalm inventor; and many more.

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