The First Peacetime Draft

The First Peacetime Draft
Author: John Garry Clifford
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Total Pages: 344
Release: 1986
Genre: History
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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, 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.