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John Morton Blum's V Was for Victory Reviewed

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in the form of Adolf Hitler, the war, in a sense, ended up launching tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States, resulted in treaties between America and her  allies and even spurred the development of some high technology (such as the Atom bomb and Werhner von Brauns Saturn V-6 rockets, which eventually helped land men on the moon).  What may not be so obvious, however, is the wars impact on the United States in terms of the homefront; in other words,  those who had to remain behind in order to deal with the war as best as they could. In his book V was for Victory, author John Morton Blum attempts  to examine the social impact that the war had on the home front. Blums premise overall is that his book is not so much a history of what went on  in the homefront during the war, but rather, a study of "some of the ways in which American politics and American culture interacted." The war, he notes, was less about  a country rallying together to support "its boys," as much as it was about the use of politics to control the emotions of the masses, which ultimately ended up directing  the culture of the times. One way in which government and politics became involved in directing cultural mores was through blunt propaganda to  try and sell the war to the American public. This was necessary - even after Pearl Harbor, Americans were reluctant to become involved in a conflict that was nowhere near  their own back yard. Although the West Coast was stunned by the Pearl Harbor attack, to the average American, Pearl Harbor was a far-away island that may as well have