United We Stand: Flying the American Flag

by Peter Gwillim Kreitler and Chronicle Books LLC Staff

United We Stand collects more than 100 of the most striking covers from the patriotic campaign of the summer of 1942. The United We Stand slogan developed as a result of the response to Pearl Harbor... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811835219
• ISBN13: 9780811835213
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Interesting addition to my collection of Americana

Enjoyed browsing through the book and added it to my collection of American flag memorabilia.

Fly the Flag.

After the attack on Pear Harbor, Paul MacNamara, a PR man for Hearst magazines, had a clever idea. On July four of 1942 why not get the Nation's major magazines and comics to show their patriotism (and sell more copies) by printing Old Glory on their covers. Nearly three hundred titles joined in and just over a hundred of them are shown in this lovely book. The covers are from the author's collection and it is a pity that there are not more shown. Considering that most of the covers show a flag flying in the wind it is interesting to see how the magazine's designers handled the cover layout, some titles (Modern Industry page 86) used a flat design flag and still produced an eye-catching cover. I would not normally mention cutting up a book but many of the covers that have a dominant flag look so nice that they would really look good mounted on a colored background and framed. They are mostly four by five inches. Maybe something to do for this years July four! ***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.

Old Glory in WWII

This little book reviews many covers of major US magazines from July 1942 which carried the US flag celebrating the first Independence Day after Pearl Harbor. The patriotism of that wartime era is eerily reminiscent of the wave of patriotism reaching across our Nation after 11 September. I would hope that in July 2002 we will see a similar expression of national unity. God bless America!