Freedom betrayed : Herbert Hoover's secret history of the Second World War and its aftermath / / edited with an introduction by George H. Nash

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811222203321
• Autore: Hoover Herbert <1874-1964.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, Calif., : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2011
• ISBN: 0-8179-1238-X; 0-8179-1236-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1104 p.)
• Collana: Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; no. 598
• Altri autori (Persone): NashGeorge H. <1945->
• Disciplina: 940.53/73
• Soggetti: World War, 1939-1945 - United States; Cold War; United States Foreign relations 1933-1945; United States Foreign relations 1945-1953; United States Politics and government 1933-1953
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: v. 1, section 1. A great intellectual and moral plague comes to free men ; section 2. I make an appraisal of the forces moving among nations in 1938 ; section 3. A revolution in American foreign policies ; section 4. 1939 : in Europe, a year of monstrous evils for mankind ; section 5. The communist-Nazi conquest of Europe ; section 6. More American action-- stronger than words-- but less than war ; section 7. Brainwashing the American people ; section 8. The revolution in American foreign policies continued ; section 9. The opportunity to make lasting peace comes to Franklin Roosevelt ; section 10. The road to war -- v. 2, section 11. The march of conferences ; section 12. The march of conferences ; section 13. The march of conferences-- the Tehran-Cairo conferences, November-December 1943 ; section 14. The march of conferences ; section 15. The march of conferences-- the Yalta conference : February 4-11, 1945 ; section 16. The rise, decline and fall of the Atlantic charter ; section 17. The first days of the Truman administration ; section 18. The march of conferences-- the Potsdam conference and after -- v. 3. Case histories, section 1. A step-by-step history of Poland ; section 2. The decline and fall of free ; China-- a case history ; section 3. The case history of Korea ; section 4. Vengeance comes to Germany.
• Sommario/riassunto: Herbert Hoover's ""magnum opus""?at last published nearly fifty years after its completion offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the ""lost statesmanship"" of Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover offers his frank evaluation of Roosevelt's foreign policies before Pearl Harbor and policies during the war, as well as an examination of the war's consequences, including the expansion of the Soviet empire at war's end and the eruption of the cold war against the Communists.