Bipartisan alliance during World War II -- The hunter and the strategist -- The fight over isolationism -- Crossing the divide -- Uniting America -- A bipartisan call to arms -- The separate peace -- "Let the Negro masses march!" -- Pearl Harbor -- World War, internal war -- Wom…
"Untangles the narrative threads of Roosevelt's final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax"--Dust jacket flap. "'By far the most enigmatic leading figure' …
"Untangles the narrative threads of Roosevelt's final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax"--Dust jacket flap. "'By far the most enigmatic leading figure' …
"This volume asserts that there was tacit cooperation in the Nazi extermination of the Jewish population of Europe by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Second World War. Although the Allies publicly recognized the Na…
"In Choosing War, Douglas Cark Peifer compares the ways in which different presidential administrations have responded when American lives were lost at sea"--Jacket.
Volume 1: Franklin D. Roosevelt, consensus choice as one of the great presidents, led the American people through the two major crises of modern times. The first volume of an epic two-part biography, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939 presents FDR from a priv…
By successfully seeking a third term in 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt shattered a tradition that was as old as the American republic. The longstanding yet controversial two-term tradition reflected serious tensions in American political values. The framers of the Constitution, wit…