| Description |
1 online resource (xxxviii, 507 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Introduction: just the way it was -- This is my town -- Coming to Orange -- Children at a unique time -- Teenagers live forever -- The women: very good, very strong -- Being black in Orange -- Top people in shipyard management -- They got the job done: out in the yards -- Buy anything, sell anything: doing business -- Conclusion: like a hybrid -- Epilogue -- Appendices: Orange 1944 ; Seeing, remembering ; Procedure |
| Summary |
Over the course of World War II, Orange, Texas's easternmost city, went from a sleepy southern town of 7,500 inhabitants to a bustling industrial city of 60,000. The bayou community on the Sabine became one of the nation's preeminent shipbuilding centers. In They Called It the War Effort, Louis Fairchild details the explosive transformation of his native city in the words of the people who lived through it. Some residents who lived in the town before the war speak of nostalgia for the time when Orange was a small, close-knit community and regret for the loss of social cohesivene |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Texas -- Orange -- Anecdotes
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Texas -- Orange -- Anecdotes
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Oral history -- Texas -- Orange
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Interviews -- Texas -- Orange
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Interviews
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Manners and customs
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Oral history
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Social aspects
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Orange (Tex.) -- Biography
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Orange (Tex.) -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
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Orange (Tex.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
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Texas -- Orange
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Anecdotes
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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Anecdotes.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011027761 |
| ISBN |
9780876112595 |
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0876112599 |
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9781283972147 |
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128397214X |
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