From Booklist
Collectibles are the authors' metier; they've published many albums devoted to items of nostalgic Americana. This colorful one exhibits an eclectic combination of posters, advertisements, magazine and book covers, record labels, sheet music, and kitschy trinkets, such as a pin cushion contrived as Hitler's derriere. Other albums are more scholarly (e.g., Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution by Peter Paret, 1992), but Heide and Gilman are casting wider for a readership that might still have ration coupons and Life magazines stuffed away in the attic. In this metaphorical attic, they'll find oddments indicative of the effort to instill solidarity between the home and fighting fronts, such as Girl Pilots of the Ferry Command (pulp for YAers) or Gay Furlough cologne, marketed with who-knows-what shore leave in mind. Short features about specific items alternate with thematic comments about scrap and war bond drives, but the pictures are the essence and should provoke some memories Gilbert Taylor
