Detroit And The "Good War" : The World War II Letters of Mayor Edward Jeffries and Friends /

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Edward J. Jeffries Jr., was elected mayor of Detroit in 1937 and for a decade led the city through a period of race riots, union turmoil, and unprecedented growth. Jeffries's circle of friends was made up primarily of newspaper reporters who shared his interests and lifestyle. Devoted to family...

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Autor principal: Jeffries, Edward, 1900-1950
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1996]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Jeffries, Edward, > 1900-1950.
Jeffries, Edward, > 1900-1950 > Correspondence.
Mayors.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Military.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Maires > Michigan > Detroit > Correspondance.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Michigan > Detroit.
Mayors > Michigan > Detroit > Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 > Michigan > Detroit.
Michigan > Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.) > History.
Personal correspondence.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Edward J. Jeffries Jr., was elected mayor of Detroit in 1937 and for a decade led the city through a period of race riots, union turmoil, and unprecedented growth. Jeffries's circle of friends was made up primarily of newspaper reporters who shared his interests and lifestyle. Devoted to family, they nevertheless worked long hours, smoked heavily, drank moderately, and gambled often in their running card games of gin and poker. After Pearl Harbor, Jeffries watched his closest friends, most twelve to fourteen years his junior, enlist in the armed forces. Voracious letter writers, over the next f.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9780813159133

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