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Good girls, good food, good fun the story of USO hostesses during World War II
| Title | Good girls, good food, good fun the story of USO hostesses during World War II |
| Names | Winchell, Meghan K. |
| Book Number | DB068558 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Book |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | Nebraska professor uses oral interviews and archival research to document the role of civilian women volunteers with the United Service Organizations (USO), which provided recreation for American soldiers at home during wartime. Explains that the primarily white, middle-class, and native-born hostesses were chosen to represent the mid-twentieth-century's feminine ideal. 2008. |
| Narrator | Cundiff, Kerry. |
| Local Subject | Adult Book - AD |
| Adult Non-Fiction - AN | |
| Short Book - SH | |
| History - HST | |
| History, United States - HUS | |
| History, U.S. - 20th Century - HUT | |
| Women's Interest - WOM | |
| War (Non-Fiction) - WNF | |
| War - World War II - WNF2 | |
| General Non-Fiction - GNF | |
| Audience Notes | Female narrator. |
| LC Subject | Soldiers - Recreation - United States - History |
| Women - United States - Social conditions - 20th century |
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| World War, 1939-1945 - War work - United States |
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| World War, 1939-1945 - Women - United States |
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| Call Number | 940.53082 ANF |
| Language | English |
| Released | 2008 |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2008 (American Printing House for the Blind, recording studio). |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008. 9780807832370 |