Detroit and the Good War: The World War II Letters of Mayor Edward Jeffries and Friends by Capeci, Dominic J.

Detroit and the Good War: The World War II Letters of Mayor Edward Jeffries and Friends (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813119748)

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Detroit and the Good War: The World War II Letters of Mayor Edward Jeffries and Friends by Capeci, Dominic J.

Detroit and the Good War: The World War II Letters of Mayor Edward Jeffries and Friends

$35.00
Detroit and the Good War: The World War II Letters of Mayor Edward Jeffries and Friends by Capeci, Dominic J.

Detroit and the Good War: The World War II Letters of Mayor Edward Jeffries and Friends

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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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, 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 twe

Author: Dominic J. Capeci
ISBN-10: 081311974X
ISBN-13: 9780813119748
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 10/31/1996
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.27w x 1.06d
By Dominic J. Capeci
By Dominic J. Capeci
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Dominic J. Capeci, Jr., professor of history at Southwest Missouri State University, is the author of Layered Violence: The Detroit Rioters of 1943 and Race Relations in Wartime Detroit.

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