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Freedom betrayed : Herbert Hoover's secret history of the Second World War and its aftermath
- Title
- Freedom betrayed : Herbert Hoover's secret history of the Second World War and its aftermath / edited with an introduction by George H. Nash.
- Author
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2011], ©2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Nash, George H., 1945-
- Description
- cxx, 957 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The culmination of an extraordinary literary project that Herbert Hoover launched during World War II, his "magnum opus"--at last published nearly fifty years after its completion--offers a revisionist reexamination of the war and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the "lost statesmanship" of Franklin Roosevelt. Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath originated as a volume of Hoover's memoirs, a book initially focused on his battle against President Roosevelt's foreign policies before Pearl Harbor. As time went on, however, Hoover widened his scope to include Roosevelt's foreign policies during the war, as well as the war's consequences: the expansion of the Soviet empire at war's end and the eruption of the cold war against the Communists. On issue after issue, Hoover raises crucial questions that continue to be debated to this day. Did Franklin Roosevelt deceitfully maneuver the United States into an undeclared and unconstitutional naval war with Germany in 1941? Did he unnecessarily appease Joseph Stalin at the pivotal Tehran conference in 1943? Did communist agents and sympathizers in the White House, Department of State, and Department of the Treasury play a malign role in some of America's wartime decisions? Hoover raises numerous arguments that challenge us to think again about our past. Whether or not one ultimately accepts his arguments, the exercise of confronting them will be worthwhile to all.
- Series Statement
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; No. 598
- Uniform Title
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; 598.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- IC 11-9500
- ISBN
- 9780817912345 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0817912347 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780817912369 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- 0817912363 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2011036861
- OCLC
- 701013353
- Author
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
- Title
- Freedom betrayed : Herbert Hoover's secret history of the Second World War and its aftermath / edited with an introduction by George H. Nash.
- Imprint
- Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2011], ©2011.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; No. 598Hoover Institution Press publication ; 598.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Nash, George H., 1945- editor.
- Research Call Number
- IC 11-9500