{"id":376,"date":"2019-04-22T08:20:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T15:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=376"},"modified":"2019-04-21T13:26:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T20:26:24","slug":"two-men-and-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/two-men-and-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Men and a Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two Men and a Car: Franklin Roosevelt, Al Capone, and a Cadillac V-8<\/a>
\nby Michael Garland (Author \/ Illustrator)<\/p>\n

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Booktalk:<\/strong> It is December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt leads a nation in crisis. He must make a speech to a joint session of Congress that will build support for America\u2019s entry to World War II, but to do that he needs an armored vehicle in which to make the short trip from the White House to the Capitol Building. According to legend, the car Roosevelt rode in that day, borrowed from the FBI\u2019s impound lot, was an armored Cadillac V-8 built for gangster Al Capone in the late 1920s to shield himself from enemies. Is the legend true, or is it an American tall tale in the tradition of Paul Bunyan or John Henry? Either way, it\u2019s an ideal vehicle to compare and contrast the lives of two American men who grew up within miles of one another: one a great president, the other an infamous villain.<\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong> Cadillac V-8s were state-of-the-art vehicles in their time. If you were rich and powerful, a chauffeur or a bodyguard drove yours for you. This one was custom-built in 1928 for a notorious mob boss who ordered bulletproof windows and armor-plated panels. According to legend, ten years after the gangster climbed out of this automobile for the last time, one of America’s greatest presidents climbed in. How could two such different men come to share a car? <\/p>\n

\"Nonfiction<\/p>\n

It’s Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2019 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two Men and a Car: Franklin Roosevelt, Al Capone, and a Cadillac V-8 by Michael Garland (Author \/ Illustrator) Booktalk: It is December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt leads a nation in crisis. He must make a speech to a joint session of Congress … <\/p>\n

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