{"product_id":"helluva-town-the-story-of-new-york-city-during-world-war-ii-paperback","title":"Helluva Town: The Story of New York City During World War II - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Goldstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the stirring signature number from the 1944 Broadway musical \u003ci\u003eOn the Town\u003c\/i\u003e, three sailors on a 24-hour search for love in wartime Manhattan sing, \"\u003ci\u003eNew York, New York, a helluva town.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Navy boys' race against time mirrored the very real frenzy in the city that played host to 3 million servicemen, then shipped them out from its magnificent port to an uncertain destiny. This was a time when soldiers and sailors on their final flings jammed the Times Square movie houses featuring lavish stage shows as well as the nightclubs like the Latin Quarter and the Copacabana; a time when bobby-soxers swooned at the Paramount over Frank Sinatra, a sexy, skinny substitute for the boys who had gone to war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Goldstein's \u003ci\u003eHelluva Town \u003c\/i\u003eis a kaleidoscopic and compelling social history that captures the youthful electricity of wartime and recounts the important role New York played in the national war effort. This is a book that will prove irresistible to anyone who loves New York and its relentlessly fascinating saga. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWartime Broadway lives again in these pages through the plays of Lillian Hellman, Robert Sherwood, Maxwell Anderson, and John Steinbeck championing the democratic cause; Irving Berlin's \u003ci\u003eThis Is the Army \u003c\/i\u003eand Moss Hart's \u003ci\u003eWinged Victory \u003c\/i\u003ewith their all-servicemen casts; Rodgers and Hammerstein's \u003ci\u003eOklahoma! \u003c\/i\u003ehailing American optimism; the Leonard Bernstein-Jerome Robbins production of \u003ci\u003eOn the Town; \u003c\/i\u003eand the Stage Door Canteen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd these were the days when the Brooklyn Navy Yard turned out battleships and aircraft carriers, when troopships bound for Europe departed from the great Manhattan piers where glamorous ocean liners once docked, where the most beautiful liner of them all, the \u003ci\u003eNormandie\u003c\/i\u003e, caught fire and capsized during its conversion to a troopship. Here, too, is an unseen New York: physicists who fled Hitler's Europe spawning the atomic bomb, the FBI chasing after Nazi spies, the Navy enlisting the Mafia to safeguard the port against sabotage, British agents mounting a vast intelligence operation. This is the city that served as a magnet for European artists and intellectuals, whose creative presence contributed mightily to New York's boisterous cosmopolitanism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLong before 9\/11, New York felt vulnerable to a foreign foe. \u003ci\u003eHelluva Town \u003c\/i\u003erecalls how 400,000 New Yorkers served as air-raid wardens while antiaircraft guns ringed the city in anticipation of a German bombing raid. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinally, this is the story of New York's emergence as the power and glory of the world stage in the wake of V-J Day, underlined when the newly created United Nations arose beside the East River, climaxing a storied chapter in the history of the world's greatest city.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 04, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52932076994867,"sku":"9781439196687","price":31.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/qnyyeJU9dk9781439196687.webp?v=1767866071","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/helluva-town-the-story-of-new-york-city-during-world-war-ii-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}