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

by Robert Dallek

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199826667
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/25/1995
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

University of California, Los Angeles (Emeritus)

Table of Contents

	Prologue An American Internationalist	3
Part 1	The Internationalist as Nationalist, 1932-1934
1	First Things First	23
2	The Diplomacy of Hope	35
3	...and Nationalism	59
4	Farewell to Internationalism	78
Part 2	The Internationalist as Isolationist, 1935-1938
5	Muddling Through	101
6	Standing Still	122
7	Gestures	144
Part 3	The Politics of Foreign Policy, 1939-1941
8	Limited Influence	171
9	The Reluctant Neutral	199
10	Conflict and Compromise	233
11	The Tortuous Road to War	269
Part 4	The Idealist as Realist, 1942-1945
12	The Struggle for Unity	317
13	Balancing Needs	362
14	Alliance Politics	406
15	1944: Victories and Doubts	442
16	Will There Be Peace?	485
	Epilogue Rossevelt as Foreign Policy Leader	529
	Afterword 1995	539
	A Note on Sources and Notes	553
	Selected Bibliography	633
	Index	643

Editorial Reviews

"A dazzling narrative...elegant...history on the grandest scale, embracing a world-wide cast of characters and all the continents....All the heroes and villains of the day before yesterday are alive again in these pages—particularly Churchill, Stalin, DeGaulle, and Chiang."—New York Times Book Review

"A book that will become a landmark in its field, indispensable to scholars and critical to our understanding of American foreign policy."—The New Republic

"Lucid, sympathetic, but critical, this is, quite simply, the best book that has been written on this important subject."—William E. Leuchtenburg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"With archival riches evident on almost every page and with the relevant monographic literature thoroughly absorbed, this lucid study will please scholar and general reader alike."—Journal of American History

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