, which was predominantly Caucasian. The school superintendent, Frank Ballou, finally acquiesced to political pressure and decided that "Anderson could sing at Central so long as the black community understood that such a gracious concession was never to be offered again" (I 7). Brinkley then spends several pages covering the dispute between the Southern whites who did not want Anderson to sing and the black community and celebrity sponsors who came to see her sing (17-19).
Another example of Brinkley's ability to present both side of an issue occurred when Roosevelt was pushing his lend-lease arms program. The president gave a speech in which he compared lending arms to lending a hose to your neighbor to put out a fire. Roosevelt explained that when the fire was over your neighbor should return the hose and thank you for its use, instead of giving you $15 for it (48). The other side of the coin was stated by Senator Taft. Apparently the Senator opposed the lend-lease arms program since he was quoted as saying, "Lending arms is like lending chewing gum, you don't want it back" (48).
By the time World War II was in full swing, Washington D.C. had become a boom town, and Brinkley spends.chapter five explaining the monumental growth the city experienced during the war effort. In 1930, Washington's population was 621,000; and at the end of 1941, its population was well over 1 million (105). Roosevelt was faced with an extremely overcrowded city that needed to be cleared out to make room for the employees working in the war effort. So he decided to decentralize by moving the Securities and Exchange Commission and several other
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