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020			_a9781621900825 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aD769 _b.A765 2014
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aPatterson, Robert Porter, _d1891-1952. _e1
245	1	0	_aArming the nation for war : _bmobilization, supply, and the American war effort in World War II / _cRobert P. Patterson ; edited by Brian Waddell ; with a foreword by Robert M. Morgenthau.
246	3	0	_aMobilization, supply, and the American war effort in World War II
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aKnoxville : _bUniversity of Tennessee Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource (xlv, 311 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aLegacies of war
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction: Robert Porter Patterson and World War II -- _tA nation without arms -- _tThe slow beginning -- _tAirplanes take five years -- _tA changing nation -- _tAltitudinal goals -- _tAn offensive begins -- _tAlaska, Australia, the Persian Gulf -- _tAssault in force -- _tThe end in Europe -- _tConcentration east -- _tEpilogue: industry, science, war, and the future.
520	0		_aA decorated World War I veteran, Federal Judge Robert P. Patterson knew all too well the needs of soldiers on the battlefield. He was thus dismayed by America's lack of military preparedness when a second great war engulfed Europe in 1939--40. With the international crisis worsening, Patterson even resumed military training--as a forty-nine-yearold private--before being named assistant secretary of war in July 1940. That appointment set the stage for Patterson's central role in the country's massive mobilization and supply effort which helped the Allies win World War II. In Arming the Nation for War, a previously unpublished account long buried among the late author's papers and originally marked confidential, Patterson describes the vast challenges the United States faced as it had to equip, in a desperately short time, a fighting force capable of confronting a formidable enemy. Brimming with data and detail, the book also abounds with deep insights into the myriad problems encountered on the domestic mobilization front--including the sometimes divergent interests of wartime planners and industrial leaders--along with the logistical difficulties of supplying far-flung theaters of war with everything from ships, planes, and tanks to food and medicine. Determined to remind his contemporaries of how narrow the Allied margin of victory was and that the war's lessons not be forgotten, Patterson clearly intended the manuscript (which he wrote between 1945 and '47, when he was President Truman's secretary of war) to contribute to the postwar debates on the future of the military establishment. That passage of the National Security Act of 1947, to which Patterson was a key contributor, answered many of his concerns may explain why he never published the book during his lifetime. A unique document offering an insider's view of a watershed historical moment, Patterson's text is complemented by editor Brian Waddell's extensive introduction and notes. In addition, Robert M. Morgenthau, former Manhattan district attorney and a protégé of Patterson's for four years prior to the latter's death in a 1952 plane crash, offers a heartfelt remembrance of a man the New York Herald-Tribune called "an example of the public-spirited citizen." Brian Waddell, an associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut, is the author of The War Against the New Deal: World War II and American Democracy and Toward the National Security State: Civil-Military Relations during World War II.
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650		0	_aIndustrial mobilization _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xLogistics _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xEconomic aspects _zUnited States.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bWar Department _xProcurement.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zUnited States.
650		0	_aIndustrial mobilization _zUnited States _vEvaluation.
600	1	0	_aPatterson, Robert Porter, _d1891-1952.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _vPersonal narratives, American.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aWaddell, Brian, _e5
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1083015&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell