The Pentagon : a history : the untold story of the wartime race to build the Pentagon--and to restore it sixty years later / Steve Vogel.
The creation of the Pentagon in seventeen whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of manpower, resources, and minds, creating an institution that ranks with a handful of other structures as symbols recognized around the world. In July 1941, the Army construction chief sprang the idea of building a single, huge headquarters that could house the entire War Department, then scattered in seventeen buildings around Washington. The Pentagon's post-World War II history is told through its critical moments, including the troubled birth of the Department of Defense during the Cold War, the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the tumultuous 1967 protest against the Vietnam War. The attack of September 11 is related with new details, as is the race to rebuild the damaged Pentagon, a restoration that echoed the spirit of its creation.--From publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 1400063035
- ISBN: 9781400063031
- ISBN: 9780812973259
- ISBN: 0812973259
- Physical Description: xxv, 626 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-606) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Part I Making of the Pentagon -- 1 Dynamite in a Tiffany Box 3 -- 2 Somervell Blitz 21 -- 3 Dream Building 35 -- 4 Carrying L'enfant's Banner 61 -- 5 A First-Class Battle 79 -- 6 Hell's Bottom 105 -- 7 Under Way 121 -- 8 View from High and Low 141 -- 9 They Wouldn't Dare Attack Pearl Harbor 165 -- 10 Big Push 187 -- 11 Plank Walkers 213 -- 12 Hell-an-Gone 231 -- 13 One of the Worst Blunders of the War 249 -- 14 Race to Move in the High Command 269 -- 15 Headquarters for the War 295 -- 16 What to do With the Pentagon 319 -- Part II Remaking of the Pentagon -- 17 No Decent Peace 339 -- 18 Battle of the Pentagon 367 -- 19 Remaking of the Pentagon 397 -- 20 September 11, 2001 423 -- 21 Phoenix Project 459.
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