"Fools, Drunks, and the United States": August 12, 1941 (Bapton Books History Selections, #4)
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This is the story of America on August 12, 1941, four months before Pearl Harbor. Isolationism was still strong, FDR was hammering out the Atlantic Charter with Churchill (to the fury of America Firsters), the Japanese were ready to kick off a war, most Americans were more interested in baseball and radio shows than in a distant conflict, and Congress decided to keep the draft - by one vote.
Markham Shaw Pyle's snapshot of America on a day more fateful than any then knew is the story of farm...























