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New Dealers' War : F. D. R. and the War Within World War II by Thomas Fleming (2001, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBasic Books
ISBN-100465024645
ISBN-139780465024643
eBay Product ID (ePID)1688057
Product Key Features
Book TitleNew Dealers' War : F. D. R. and the War Within World War II
Number of Pages640 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Military / World War II, General, Presidents & Heads of State
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorThomas Fleming
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight37.9 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-054729
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal973.917/092
SynopsisControversial and revisionist to the core, a sweeping re-examination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's handling-and mishandling-of World War II, Acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming brings to life the flawed and troubled FDR who struggled to manage WWII. Starting with the leak to the press of Roosevelt's famous Rainbow Plan, then spiraling back to FDR's inept prewar diplomacy with Japan, and his various attempts to lure Japan into an attack on the U.S. Fleet in the Pacific, Fleming takes the reader inside the incredibly fractious struggles and debates that went on in Washington, the nation, and the world as the New Dealers, led by FDR, strove to impose their will on the conduct of the War. Unlike the familiar yet idealized FDR of Doris Kearns Goodwin's No Ordinary Time, the reader encounters a Roosevelt in remorseless decline, battered by ideological forces and primitive hatreds which he could not handle-and frequently failed to understand-some of them leading to unimaginable catastrophe. Among FDR's most dismaying policies, Fleming argues, were an insistence on "unconditional surrender" for Germany (a policy that perhaps prolonged the war by as many as two years, leaving millions more dead) and his often uncritical embrace of and acquiescence to Stalin and the Soviets as an ally.For many Americans, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a beloved, heroic, almost mythic figure, if not for the "big government" that was spawned under his New Deal, then certainly for his leadership through the War. The New Dealers' War paints a very different portrait of this leadership. It is sure to spark debate.
LC Classification NumberE807.F54 2001
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