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Craig Nelson is the author of Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness and the New York Times bestseller, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, as well as several previous books, including The Age of Radiance (a PEN Award Finalist chosen as one of the year's best books by NBC News, the American Institute of Physics, Kirkus Reviews, and FlavorWire), The First Heroes, Thomas Paine (winner of the Henry Adams Prize), and Let's Get Lost (shortlisted for W.H. Smith's Book of the Year). His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, National Geographic, The New England Review, Popular Science, Reader's Digest, and a host of other publications.
V Is for Victory belongs in the library alongside the histories and biographies of Martin Gilbert, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and David McCullough. Immensely readable and engrossing, rich in detail and deeply reported, these pages possess that rare charm of omniscience flush with surprise at every turn. Nelson's prose springs FDR and America to new life--we're in the rooms as history is made. A rich feast of history and storytelling. --Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers Time and again, Roosevelt's foresight and leadership saved the world. Craig Nelson recounts this most essential of all American stories with epic sweep and telling detail. In our time of great strife and fear, his powerful book inspires hope that, like America under FDR, we, too, can build a better future. --Marc Wortman, author of 1941: Fighting the Shadow War Craig Nelson's lucid prose invites his readers into the opaque workings of FDR's mind. Across a wide-ranging account of Roosevelt's sublime and at times manipulative grasp of every aspect of American involvement in World War II--from politics and diplomacy to strategy and operations to social and economic issues--V is for Victory is a revelation of a master leader on the world stage. --Thomas Alexander Hughes, professor of history and dean of academics, Air University School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, and author of Admiral Bill Halsey and Overlord Craig Nelson has written a brilliantly researched and compellingly written story of the American home front at war. The book inspires as it instructs. --Laurence Leamer, author of Capote's Women In Craig Nelson's highly compelling account, readers will meet Roosevelt's team of politicians, industrialists, entrepreneurs and bureaucrats who pulled America from the depths of the Great Depression, fought a multi-front world war against fascism and emerged from victory as a world leader. V Is for Victory is an engrossing contribution to World War II history. --James M. Fenelon, author of Angels Against the Sun and Four Hours of Fury Each page of this book crackles with an historian's insight, a scientist's research, a writer's confidence, and a storyteller's charm. --Jim DeFilippi, author of The Mules of Monte Cassino Gifted storyteller Craig Nelson weaves together the fascinating backgrounds of the men and women - some famous, most lesser known - who built the machine that defeated Germany and Japan. --Bill Whiteside, author of The Barbarians Sat Back and Laughed
