The First Peacetime Draft

by J. Garry Clifford and Samuel R. Spencer Jr.

Book Overview

Using the Selective Service Act of 1940 as a focus to illuminate the evolution of American policy and attitudes toward the Second World War, The First Peacetime Draft unites exhaustive research with crisp narrative and trenchant analysis. It is a first-rate work - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., author of The Age of Roosevelt and The Imperial Presidency.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700603050
• ISBN13: 9780700603053
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"