“Jane Mersky Leder recounts the stories of ordinary people in extraordinary
times, and brings the World War II era to life. Beautifully written and poignant,
sometimes romantic but not always, THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES recounts how men
and women during World War II sought love, sex and security in the midst of the
upheavals of wartime.”
- Elaine Tyler
May
Professor of American Studies and History, Director of Graduate
Studies,
American Studies Department University of Minnesota
“ .
. . Vividly portrays the disruptive impact of World
War II on relations between men and women, not only
on the well documented arena of labor force participation
but also in the realms of sex, love, and marriage.
. . . Leder makes a persuasive case that the women’s
movement in the late 1960s was an aftershock of
these seismic shifts whose story, until now, has
not been told.”
- Sara M.
Evans, Ph.D.
Author of Born for Liberty: A History
of Women in America
"Lively, moving,
evocative and memorable, THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES brings back to us the extraordinary changes that
occurred among women and men during World War
II, and re-creates for us their pain, joy and courage."
- William
H. Chafe
The Alice Mary Baldwin Professor
of History at Duke University
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