To Hasten the Homecoming

How Americans Fought World War II through the Media

By (author) Jordan Braverman

Publication date:

21 October 2015

Length of book:

326 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781442248748

Jordan Braverman's eloquent narrative account of media participation in World War II is comprehensive enough to satisfy the most rigorous academic standards, but written to be accessible to all readers. To Hasten the Homecoming is an important cultural history of the American home front during World War II, which examines how popular culture reinforced patriotic sentiments and united an innocent country to defeat a common enemy. Braverman provides readers with a deep insight into America's national identity and self-perceptions during the most savage war in history.

The Home Front: An Overview
OWI: What Shall We Tell? How Shall We Tell It?
Radio: The Programs We Heard
Music: The Songs We Sang
Movies: The Films We Saw
Theater: What the Playwrights Said
Publications: The Books We Read
Cartoons: How They Fought the War
Advertising: How We Sold the War at Home
World War II: A Turning Point

Concise, richly researched, wide-angled, a quarry of information for readers under fifty, and a deep well of nostalgia for those who worked through, or were caught up in, that most terrible war in history.