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

by Garet Garrett, Bruce Ramsey (Editor)

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.

Genres: History, World War II, Politics

285 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Garet Garrett was born in 1878 in Illinois. By 1903, he had become a well known writer for the Sun newspaper (1833–1950) in New York. In 1911, he wrote a fairly successful book, Where the Money Grows and Anatomy of the Bubble. In 1916, at the age of 38, Garrett became the executive editor of the New York Tribune, after having worked as a financial writer for The New York Times, the Saturday Evening Post, and The Wall Street Journal. From 1920 to 1933, his primary focus was on writing books.
Between 1920 and 1932 Garrett wrote eight books, including The American Omen in 1928 and A Bubble That Broke the World in 1932. He also wrote regular columns for several business and financial publications.