The First Peacetime Draft
Clifford, J. Garry and Samuel R. Spencer, Jr.
Language: English
Published by University Press Of Kansas, Lawrence, 1986
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- Title
- The First Peacetime Draft
- Author
- Clifford, J. Garry and Samuel R. Spencer, Jr.
- Publisher
- University Press Of Kansas, Lawrence
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0700603050
- ISBN 13
- 9780700603053
- Edition
- First Edition
- Seller catalogs
- American History, American Presidency, World War II
Central to the discussion in The First Peacetime Draft is the first important American policy response to Hitler's victory in Europe in the spring of 1940 the Selective Service Act. It marked the effective end of the isolationist tradition in the United States because for the first time while the country remained officially at peace civilians were drafted into the armed forces to face the possible threat of aggression from abroad. Emerging from the initiative of civilians, not from the Army or the White House, the conscription campaign resulted in a colorful three-month public debate that engaged the entire population.
This volume is based on research in more than ninety manuscript collection in the United States, Canada, and Britain, as well as interviews with some two dozen participants. In addition to being a detailed political history of the debate over conscription, it places the draft in the context of Roosevelt's zig-zag path to war and evaluates it in terms of the overall evolution of the American defense and foreign policies since 1940.
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-Using the Selective Service Act of 1940 as a focus to illuminate the evolution of American policy and attitudes toward the Second World War, this book unites exhaustive research with crisp narrative and trenchant analysis.---Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., author of The Age of Roosevelt -An outstanding piece of historical scholarship, definitive on the selective service legislation of 1940, and brilliant in establishing the larger context. Exhaustive research, vivid style, and broad sweep . . . ---Frank Freidel, author of the four-volume Franklin D. Roosevelt -Altogether compelling--and wonderfully detailed, masterfully researched, and graciously and vividly written.---William E. Leuchtenburg, author of In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan
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