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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828745803321

Autore

Dallek Robert

Titolo

Franklin D. Roosevelt and American foreign policy, 1932-1945 : with a new afterword / / Robert Dallek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995

ISBN

0-19-771318-1

0-19-982666-8

1-280-60019-5

0-19-535705-1

1-60256-049-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (686 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

327.73

Soggetti

International relations

United States Foreign relations 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1979"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 633-642) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; PROLOGUE: An American Internationalist; 1 First Things First; 2 The Diplomacy of Hope; 3 ... and Nationalism; 4 Farewell to Internationalism; 5 Muddling Through; 6 Standing Still; 7 Gestures; 8 Limited Influence; 9 The Reluctant Neutral; 10 Conflict and Compromise; 11 The Tortuous Road to War; 12 The Struggle for Unity; 13 Balancing Needs; 14 Alliance Politics; 15 1944: Victories and Doubts; 16 Will There Be Peace?; EPILOGUE: Roosevelt as Foreign Policy Leader; Afterword 1995; A Note on Sources and Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This edition adds an afterword to the Bancroft Prize-winning study of Franklin Roosevelt's diplomacy. It effectively answers recent criticism attacking Roosevelt for producing Pearl Harbor, for "giving away" Eastern Europe to Stalin at Yalta, and for abandoning European Jews during World War II.