Get Things Moving!: FDR, Wayne Coy, and the Office for Emergency Management, 1941-1943

by Mordecai Lee

Book Overview

Shortly after Hitler's armies invaded Western Europe in May of 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt activated a new agency within the Executive Office of the President called the Office for Emergency Management (OEM). The OEM went on to house many prewar and wartime agencies created to manage the country's arms production buildup and economic mobilization. After World War II a consensus by historians quickly gelled that OEM was unimportant, viewing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143847136X
• ISBN13: 9781438471365
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"