A Date Which Will Live
Subtitle: Pearl Harbor in American Memory (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
Edition: 1st Paperback Ed edition
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: July 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780822336372
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; World history: Second World War; Military - World War II; History; History - Military / War; History: American; USA; United States - 20th Century; American Studies; History, U.S.; Influence; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; Popular culture; United States; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a master of persuasion, seized the opportunity of the surprise Japanese attack to appeal to Americans to join together in a war against the empire of Japan.