Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945: With a New Afterword

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OUP USA, Aug 17, 1995 - Biography & Autobiography - 671 pages
Since the original publication of this classic book in 1979, Roosevelt's foreign policy has come under attack on three main points: Was Roosevelt responsible for the confrontation with Japan that led to the attack at Pearl Harbor? Did Roosevelt "give away" Eastern Europe to Stalin and the U.S.S.R. at Yalta? And, most significantly, did Roosevelt abandon Europe's Jews to the Holocaust, making no direct effort to aid them?

In a new Afterword to his definitive history, Dallek vigorously and brilliantly defends Roosevelt's policy. He emphasizes how Roosevelt operated as a master politician in maintaining a national consensus for his foreign policy throughout his presidency and how he brilliantly achieved his policy and military goals.
 

Contents

An American Internationalist
3
The Internationalist as Nationalist 19321934
21
The Internationalist as Isolationist 19351938
99
The Politics of Foreign Policy 19391941
169
The Idealist as Realist 19421945
315
Roosevelt as Foreign Policy Leader
529
Afterword 1995
539
A Note on Sources and Notes
553
Selected Bibliography
633
Index
643
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Robert Dallek is at University of California, Los Angeles (Emeritus).