- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Jones, John Bush.
- Published
- Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, [2006]
©2006
- Locale
- United States
- Contents
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"When this crazy world is sane again" : the setting for the songs
"I hear America singing" : but who wrote all those songs?
"Over here" : prewar isolationism, patriotism, and preparedness
"Chin up! cheerio! carry on!" : the allies and us
"G.I. jive" : the draft, enlistment, and army life
"Johnny, get your gun again" : from national pride to axis-bashing
"There's an F.D.R. in freedom" : the war's faces and places
"In the army, in the navy, in the marines" : saluting the services
"Don't forget there's a war going on" : pitching in and coping on the home front
"Arm in arm" : wartime romance
"A boy in khaki, a girl in lace" : the servicemen away, their girls back home
"It's been a long, long time" : victory, homecomings, the world after the war.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-299) and indexes.
"When this crazy world is sane again" : the setting for the songs -- "I hear America singing" : but who wrote all those songs? -- "Over here" : prewar isolationism, patriotism, and preparedness -- "Chin up! cheerio! carry on!" : the allies and us -- "G.I. jive" : the draft, enlistment, and army life -- "Johnny, get your gun again" : from national pride to axis-bashing -- "There's an F.D.R. in freedom" : the war's faces and places -- "In the army, in the navy, in the marines" : saluting the services -- "Don't forget there's a war going on" : pitching in and coping on the home front -- "Arm in arm" : wartime romance -- "A boy in khaki, a girl in lace" : the servicemen away, their girls back home -- "It's been a long, long time" : victory, homecomings, the world after the war.
