The Bad City in the Good War - San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego

The Bad City in the Good War is a comprehensive local history of the California home front that restores a little-known part of the story of the Second World War.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Limping to Vallejo: The Martial Metropolises at War

2. Dunkirk at the Marina: War and the Renaissance of Urban Community

3. Al Capone and Alcatraz: The Latent Resources of Urban California

4. Tijuana Breakfast: Learning from the Women of Rancho San Rafael and Wake

Island

5. The Universal Double V: War and Ethnocultural Accommodation

6. War and the Sources of Urban Racial and National Diversity

7. Urban Economies in a Statist War

8. Government: Managing the City in a Madcap World

9. Government: Mission Improbable

Conclusion

Appendix: Tables

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the author

Roger W. Lotchin

Summary

In the mythology of the West, the city was seen as a place of danger and corruption, but the "bad" city proved its mettle during the "Good War." This book presents a comprehensive study of California's urban home front, which aims to restore a little-known part of the story of the Second World War.

Product details

• Authors: Roger W. Lotchin, Lotchin Roger W
• Assisted by: Walter Nugent (Editor), Martin Ridge (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2003
• EAN: 9780253215468
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21546-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 500 g
• Series: American West in the Twentieth; American West in the Twentieth Century; American West in the Twentieth; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous