From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village,
comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era.
New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen,
politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of
quislings and saboteurs; of Nazi, Fascist, and Communist sympathizers;
of war protesters and conscientious objectors; of gangsters and hookers
and profiteers; of latchkey kids and bobby-soxers, poets and painters,
atomic scientists and atomic spies.
While the war launched and leveled nations, spurred economic growth, and
saw the rise and fall of global Fascism, New York City would eventually
emerge as the new capital of the world. From the Gilded Age to VJ-Day,
an array of fascinating New Yorkers rose to fame, from Mayor Fiorello La
Guardia to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Langston Hughes to Joe Louis,
to Robert Moses and Joe DiMaggio.
In Victory City, John Strausbaugh returns to tell the story of New York
City's war years with the same richness, depth, and nuance he brought to
his previous books, City of Sedition and The Village, providing
readers with a groundbreaking new look into the greatest city on earth
during the most transformative -- and costliest -- war in human history.
