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How Roosevelt failed America in World War II / Stewart Halsey Ross.

Title: How Roosevelt failed America in World War II / Stewart Halsey Ross.
Author: Ross, Stewart Halsey.
Publication: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.

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Description

viii, 246 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This work examines how Franklin D. Roosevelt navigated prewar neutrality to push the U.S. toward intervention on the side of the Allies, and considers critically his wartime policy of unconditional surrender and his unprecedented acceptance of a fourth term"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-240) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. FDR's undeclared war in the Atlantic -- 2. FDR's personal fifty-destroyers-for-bases deal -- 3. Lend-lease : to the brink of war -- 4. Charles A. Lindbergh and the America First Committee -- 5. FDR's expendable "three small vessels" -- 6. Pearl Harbor : FDR's monstrous conspiracy -- 7. FDR's tomfoolery : unconditional surrender -- 8. FDR ignores Die Schwarze Kapelle -- 9. Treasure Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s scorched-earth plan -- 10. Roosevelt : feeble and dying -- 11. Was Adolf Hitler planning to attack the United States? -- App. A. President Grover Cleveland's "toothache," 1893 -- App. B. The Zimmermann telegram, January 17, 1917 -- App. C. Woodrow Wilson's fourteen points, January 18, 1918.

ISBN

0786425121 (softcover : alk. paper)
9780786425129

LCCN

^^2006010929

OCLC

67239671

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library