When Books Went to War (40 page)

 

10. Peace at Last

 

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“
My old division”:
Bill Mauldin,
Up Front
, 197.

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“
Home had faded”:
Robert Case, “Through to Murmansk,” in
Battle: The True Stories of Combat in World War II
(New York: Doubleday & Company, 1965), 38.

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As late as 1940:
Loss, “‘The Most Wonderful Thing,'” 867.

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provided information
: Darrell Huff and Frances Huff,
Twenty Careers of Tomorrow
(New York: Armed Services Edition, No. 1002 [1946]); Minutes of Exec. Committee, April 25, 1945, Council Records.Darrell Huff and Frances Huff, Twenty Careers of Tomorrow (New York: Armed Services Edition, No. 1002 [1946]); Minutes of Exec. Committee, April 25, 1945, Council Records.

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how to choose a vocation:
William G. Campbell and James H. Bedford,
You and Your Future Job
(New York: Armed Services Edition, No. 1081 [1946]); John F. Wharton,
The Theory and Practice of Earning a Living
(New York: Armed Services Edition, No. 1105 [1946]).

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Sulfanilamide, a substance:
Pyle,
Here Is Your War
, 75.

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inspired many servicemen to go:
Letter from Colonel L. C. W. to Arthur Train, February 29, 1944, Arthur Train Correspondence 1944–1945, Archives of Charles Scribner's Sons, Author Files I, Box 181, Folder 11; Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

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“
death, plus rain”:
Letter from Pvt. G. G. to Thomas Y. Crowell, Co., September 20, 1944, Council Records.

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sheets cut from a paper bag:
Letter from R. C. to W. W. Norton, October 10, 1944, Council Records.

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“
the most intensive bombardment”:
Hanson W. Baldwin, “1,000 Plane Blows Daily Is Prospect for Japan,”
New York Times
, June 3, 1945.

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B-29s daily dropped:
Warren Moscow, “B-29's Rain Pamphlets on Japan; Surrender Talk Seen Taking Root,”
New York Times
, June 4, 1945.

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“
will smash the enemy”:
“Premier Sees War Decided in Japan,”
New York Times
, June 9, 1945.

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Japan's grip on the Philippines:
Lindesay Parrott, “'41 Congress Sits in the Philippines,”
New York Times
, June 10, 1945.

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“There was a terrific”:
“The War Ends,”
Life
(Overseas Service ed.), August 20, 1945, p. 6.

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Four square miles:
W. H. Lawrence, “Visit to Hiroshima Proves It World's Most-Damaged City,”
New York Times
, September 5, 1945.

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they may expect a rain”:
“Text of Statements by Truman, Stimson, on Development of Atomic Bomb,”
New York Times
, August 7, 1945.

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“
desire for an early
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:
“Japan Keeps People in Dark on Nature of New Scourge,”
New York Times
, August 8, 1945.

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Seventy-five hours:
“The War Ends,”
Life
, 7.

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“we shall use the atomic”:
“The President's Report,”
New York Times
, August 10, 1945.

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five agonizing days:
Alexander Feinberg, “All City ‘Lets Go,'”
New York Times
, August 15, 1945.

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Around the world:
“Victory Reports Around the World,”
Life
, August 20, 1945, 16B–16C.

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On September 2, 1945:
“Truman's Nephew in Crew,”
New York Times
, September 2, 1945.

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The Army estimated:
Joseph A. Loftus, “Says Army Speeds Discharge Rate,”
New York Times
, September 13, 1945.

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remained a need for ASEs:
Minutes of Exec. Committee, August 22, September 12, 1945, Council Records.

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“
it would be short sighted”:
Minutes of Exec. Committee, September 12, 1945, 2, Council Records.

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In December 1945:
Jamieson,
Books for the Army
, 156.

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But as the size of the Army:
Ibid.

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Midway through the contract:
“Notice of Special Meeting of Directors of Editions for the Armed Services, Inc,” January 15, 1947, Malcolm Johnson Papers, private collection of Molly Guptill Manning.

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“
followed me through combat”:
Letter from Capt. B. V. B. to the Secretary of the Council on Books in Wartime, January 10, 1946, Council Records.

 

11. Damned Average Raisers

 

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“
We have taught our youth”:
H. Doc. No. 344, House of Representatives, 78th Con., 1st Sess. (December 13, 1943), 5, “Message from the President of the United States Transmitting Preliminary Report of the Armed Forces Committee on Post-War Educational Opportunities for Service Personnel,” dated October 27, 1943.

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political consequences”:
Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin,
The GI Bill
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 43.

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pressing matter of national:
Loss, “‘The Most Wonderful Thing,'” 886.

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“
This prevailing tendency”:
Charles G. Bolte,
The New Veteran
(New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945), 140.

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“
a future of ditch digging”:
Loss, “‘The Most Wonderful Thing,'” 887.

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cheaper to keep men”:
“Hershey Sees a Million or Two Out of Armed Forces After Reich Falls,”
New York Times
, August 22, 1944.

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“
This plan would be quite”:
“Replies to General Hershey,”
Yank, the Army Weekly
(British ed.), September 10, 1944, p. 19.

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During the war”:
H. Doc. No. 361, House of Representatives, 78th Con., 1st Sess., “Message from the President of the United States Transmitting a Request for Passage of Legislation to Grant to All Veterans of Our Armed Forces Mustering-Out Pay, A Uniform System of Allowances for Unemployed Veterans; Also Legislation to Amend the Federal Old-Age Survivors' Insurance Law to Include All Veterans of the Present War,” November 23, 1943.

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“
Nothing .
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. would be more”:
H. Doc. No. 344, House of Representatives, 78th Con., 1st Sess., “Message from the President of the United States Transmitting Preliminary Report of the Armed Forces Committee.”

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In 1940 the average worker:
Goodwin,
No Ordinary Time
, 513.

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“
the political sex”:
Altschuler and Blumin,
The GI Bill
, 54, 60.

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“emphatic notice”:
Cong. Rec. Sen. Vol. 153, Pt. 17, at 24453 (September 17, 2007) (quoting Roosevelt).

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As of February 1, 1945:
Stanley Frank, “The G.I.'s Reject Education,”
Saturday Evening Post
, August 18, 1945, p. 20.

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“understatement of the decade”:
Altschuler and Blumin,
The GI Bill
, 78.

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“
has no patience for”:
Frank, “The G.I.'s Reject Education,” 20, 101–2.

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“I would rather have had”:
Pvt. G. H., “Bill of Rights,” in “Mail Call,”
Yank, the Army Weekly
(British ed.), February 18, 1945, pp. 18–19.

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Congress enhanced the law:
“Discharged Veterans,”
Monthly Labor Review
62, no. 4 (April 1946), 595.

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pocket-sized booklet: Going Back to Civilian Life
, WD Pamphlet 21–4 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945).

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Librarians once again rose:
Margaret Fulmer, “For the Returning Service Man,”
American Library Association Bulletin
39, no. 6 (June 1945), 197–200.

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Between August 1945:
Altschuler and Blumin,
The GI Bill
, 83, 95.

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turned out in droves:
Suzanne Mettler,
Soldiers to Citizens
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 62.

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Over the course:
Loss, “‘The Most Wonderful Thing,'” 887, 889.

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Damned Average Raisers:
Altschuler and Blumin,
The GI Bill
, 95.

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“
one priceless quality”:
Mettler,
Soldiers to Citizens
, 71.

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“heartening sign”:
Altschuler and Blumin,
The GI Bill
, 95.

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“
Legalized segregation denied”:
Loss, “‘The Most Wonderful Thing,'” 889.

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“
back to the kitchen”:
Mettler,
Soldiers to Citizens
, 147–48.

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“
If ‘Editions for the Armed Services'”:
Bruce Bliven, “Books for Soldiers,”
New Republic
, April 9, 1945.

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“
the best read army”:
Clip Boutell, “Authors Are Like People,”
New York Post
, April 19, 1945.

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“
I found that a lot of them”:
“Armed Services Editions Excerpts from Letters Received by the Center for the Book from Authors,” Library of Congress.

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Before the war:
David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson, eds.,
A History of the Book in America
, vol. 5 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 42–45.

 

Afterword

 

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more than 100 million:
Jonathan Rose,
The Holocaust and the Book
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), 1.

American Booksellers Association,
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American Civil War,
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American Legion,
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American Red Cross,
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American Women's Voluntary Services,
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Areopagitica
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print runs,
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reading in battle,
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D-day,
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Pacific theater,
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redeployment,
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Art, German,
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Assignment: U.S.A.
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Axis Sally,
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B-29 bombers,
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The Battle Is the Payoff
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Battle of Savo Island,
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Beard, Charles,
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Bebelplatz,
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