num_pages: 688
description: Since the original publication of this classic book in 1979, Roosevelt's foreign policy has come under attack on three main Was Roosevelt responsible for the confrontation with Japan that led to the attack at Pearl Harbor? Did Roosevelt "give away" Eastern Europe to Stalin and the U.S.S.R. at Yalta? And, most significantly, did Roosevelt abandon Europe's Jews to the Holocaust, making no direct effort to aid them?In a new Afterword to his definitive history, Dallek vigorously and brilliantly defends Roosevelt's policy. He emphasizes how Roosevelt operated as a master politician in maintaining a national consensus for his foreign policy throughout his presidency and how he brilliantly achieved his policy and military goals.
language: English
title: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945
titlecomplete: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945
characters: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henry L. Stimson, Sumner Welles, Cordell Hull
genres: American, History, Presidents, World War II, Biography, United States, American History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 87
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Bancroft Prize, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: History (Hardcover) (1980) & (Paperback)
publisher: Oxford University Press