Defend America First: The Antiwar Editorials of the "Saturday Evening Post," 1939-1942

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press
Even the "Good War" had its critics. Sixteen months before Pearl Harbor, Garet Garrett wrote, "If this country should come awake one morning to read in the newspaper headlines, or hear by radio, that it had walked backward into war, nobody would be able to say quite how or why it happened." This collection of essays by Garet Garrett lay out the argument against the backing into war that he, and others, believe was Roosevelt's intent all along.