Growing Up Before the Bomb: The Innocent Years 1935-1945

Growing Up before the Bomb brings to life a time and place in our collective American past. In a series of chapters the author has captured what life was like, growing up during the Great Depression of 1929-1941 and the difficulties of World War II. The author lived through the depression years when millions of workers were out of work looked to the Roosevelt Administration for help that included such pump-priming devices as the WPA, PWA, NRA, and the CCC. None of these worked very well. It took the build-up and prosecution of World War II to bring about employment levels that matched the pre-Depression days. This is a collection of impressions about what it was like to grow up in a simpler world, before the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan. This effectively brought about the end of World War II and cast the United States, willing or not, into the role of Super Power.