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Local author Paul Dickson\, author of more than 60 nonfiction books\, will join us via Zoom to discuss his new book\ , The Rise of the G.I. Army\, 1940-194: The Forgotten Story of How A merica Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor
\n< p>The story of America&rsquo\;s astounding industrial mobilization dur ing World War II has been told. But what has never been chronicled before Paul Dickson&rsquo\;s \;The Rise of the G. I. Army\, 1940-1941 \;i s the extraordinary transformation of America&rsquo\;s military from a dis parate collection of camps with dilapidated equipment into a well-trained and spirited army ten times its prior size in little more than eighteen mo nths. From Franklin Roosevelt&rsquo\;s selection of George C. Marshall to be Army Chief of Staff to the remarkable peace-time draft of 1940 and the massive and unprecedented mock battles in Tennessee\, Louisiana\, and the Carolinas by which the skill and spirit of the Army were forged and out of which iconic leaders like Eisenhower\, Bradley\, and Clark emerged\; Dick son narrates America&rsquo\;s urgent mobilization against a backdrop of po litical and cultural isolationist resistance and racial tension at home\, and the increasingly perceived threat of attack from both Germany and Japa n.\nhttps://alexandria.libnet.info/event/4434732 URL;VALUE=URI:https://alexandria.libnet.info/event/4434732 ATTACH:https://static.libnet.info/images/events/alexandria/RiseOfGI-Army-3 40x509.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR