Tracy Campbell has been named the winner of the New-York Historical Society’s Book Prize
MARCH 17, 2021
NY Times: Scholar of World War II Homefront Wins History Book Prize
NY Times: Scholar of World War II Homefront Wins History Book Prize
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Tracy Campbell, the author of “The Year of Peril: America in 1942,” has been named the winner of the New-York Historical Society’s Book Prize, which is awarded each year to the best work in the field of American history or biography. Not having read the book, "The Editorial Board" of The Anti-New York Times is in no position to review it. But we are intrigued by its subject matter and the "teachable moment" ™ which it offers us -- as summed up in this Slimes piece:
"The book challenges the public memory of the war years as a time of national unity and resolve. Instead, Campbell looks at the deep fractures within American society a year after Pearl Harbor, as a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to create a beachhead in Europe seemed to bring the country to the brink of military defeat and splintering from within."
Indeed, America's first full year at war was full of controversy -- both in the fight abroad as well as in the domestic economics and politics on the homefront. The man (frontman) behind the mayhem was none other than that putrid poser whose dastardly treason provoked Japan and tricked the nation into the war in the first place -- Franklin Demono Rosenfeld.
"The book challenges the public memory of the war years as a time of national unity and resolve. Instead, Campbell looks at the deep fractures within American society a year after Pearl Harbor, as a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to create a beachhead in Europe seemed to bring the country to the brink of military defeat and splintering from within."
Indeed, America's first full year at war was full of controversy -- both in the fight abroad as well as in the domestic economics and politics on the homefront. The man (frontman) behind the mayhem was none other than that putrid poser whose dastardly treason provoked Japan and tricked the nation into the war in the first place -- Franklin Demono Rosenfeld.
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1. December 7, 1941: The "surprise" attack on Pearl Harbor brought America into the war. // 2. After inducing the attack and then not warning the commanders at Pearl Harbor of what was coming, FDR performed his pious "Day of Infamy" speech for a nation suddenly at war. // 3. The Year of Peril: America in 1942 is a book about the rough first year of America at war.
Although, as intended, Pearl Harbor united most of the country behind the war effort in general, FDR's bizarre handling (wrongly perceived as "bungling") of the war was demoralizing. On May 6, 1942, General Jonathan Wainwright surrendered himself and all 11,500 U.S. troops (after losing 800 troops) in the poorly-defended Philippines to the Japanese. After the surrender (from Corregidor island) came the Japanese occupation of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and growing American shipping losses to German U-boats in the Atlantic.
In November of 1942, Roosevelt finally launched Operation Torch -- the invasion of German-Italian-held North Africa. This too started out as a foot-dragging debacle (also deliberate) which did not turn into a positive for the Allies until General George Patton saved the day in Spring of 1943. The American people -- not understanding the "big picture" -- were dissatisfied with the losses and growing impatient. But the disappointments in the Pacific and Africa were not the result of "incompetence." The agenda of FDR and the Jewish-Communists surrounding him was to relieve the pressure on the Soviet Union and buy Stalin's thugs more time to advance (and eventually capture) Eastern Europe. For these ends, the Pacific war against Japan was essentially postponed and the advance upon Germany & Italy from Western Europe / Africa was always slowed down. Here it is -- from the then influential and well-connected Time Magazine, 1942 - the Stalin "Man of the Year" issue (January 4, 1943):
"There is also a story in high places that, in keeping with the 'tough-guy' tradition, credits Stalin with one other desire: permission from his allies to raze Berlin, as a lesson in psychology to the Germans and as a burnt offering to his own heroic people." (emphasis added)
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1. May, 1942: Outnumbered Americans lose the Philippines and surrender to the Japanese.
// 2. November 1942 - May 1943: Eisenhower dragged out Operation Torch in Africa as part of a delaying tactic (which would be repeated again and again and again in Europe) designed to relieve pressure for the Soviets, while giving them more time to advance into Eastern Europe (later in 1944-45) // 3. Time Magazine's pro-Stalin puff-piece actually revealed the reason for FDR's "poor defense" of the Philippines and delayed advanced in North Africa -- though few picked up on it.
// 2. November 1942 - May 1943: Eisenhower dragged out Operation Torch in Africa as part of a delaying tactic (which would be repeated again and again and again in Europe) designed to relieve pressure for the Soviets, while giving them more time to advance into Eastern Europe (later in 1944-45) // 3. Time Magazine's pro-Stalin puff-piece actually revealed the reason for FDR's "poor defense" of the Philippines and delayed advanced in North Africa -- though few picked up on it.
At home, Americans also had reason to be dissatisfied. In addition to the sudden shortages of materials and items caused by the redirection toward war production (much of it shipped to the Soviet Union), there were steep increases in taxes and regulations. FDR used the war effort as the perfect pretext to extend federal control over the economy. The communistic New Deal war economy was summed up in an article by Roosevelt henchman Harry Hopkins (and secret communist) which appeared in The American Magazine. It was titled, “You Will Be Mobilized,” and prescribed regimentation, rations, deprivation, and higher taxes in order to win a war the US was not winning in 1942. In 1943, FDR would go on to use the "crisis" of his war to impose the Federal withholding scheme on wage earners. By having taxes come directly out of workers' paychecks, the people, in time, would lose the proper sense of what they actually pay in income taxes.
FDR's popularity had fallen so much that the 1942 Congressional elections cost the Demonrat Party a whopping 46 seats in the House of Representatives. In late 1943 and into 1944, after the tides of war began to turn in favor of the allies and after Americans had grown accustomed to their deprivation as being "the new normal," FDR would regain his sainted status and cruise to winning an unprecedented 4th term in November of 1944 -- a term in which he died just three months into, in April of 1945.
Oh what an enduring Marxist mess St. Franklin made both at home and abroad. People were beginning to figure that out in 1942 -- a fact which has long since been forgotten.
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1. Donkey-faced communist Eleanor Roosevelt and communist Harry Hopkins (center) were among the many Marxist-Globalists who skillfully used "the fog of war" to advance communism on the domestic front as well. // 2. The Federal Withholding scam was sold as a wartime measure to facilitate the collection of "revenue." It became permanent and would forever make the raising of income taxes easier to conceal because most normies don't bother to actually reflect upon what is actually being stolen from them each pay period. // 3. The Party of the "war president" took a beating in 1942.
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Boobus Americanus 1: I read in the New York Times today about a history book describing how divided the United States was during its first year of World War II -- 1942.
Boobus Americanus 2: That's interesting. I just assumed that everyone had rallied behind FDR during 1942.
St. Sugar: A huge chunk of America alwayss hated that smooth-talking commie cripple sson-of-a-bitch!
Editor: Yes indeed. But never enough to outvote the radio & newspaper-worshiping normies of the day.
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Boobus Americanus 2: That's interesting. I just assumed that everyone had rallied behind FDR during 1942.
St. Sugar: A huge chunk of America alwayss hated that smooth-talking commie cripple sson-of-a-bitch!
Editor: Yes indeed. But never enough to outvote the radio & newspaper-worshiping normies of the day.
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