Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow
Historical opinion has traveled the spectrum from loving to hating Roosevelt, and Dunn (director of international studies, Southwest Texas State Univ.) is clearly in the disliking camp. Basing his study on research in the United States and the newly opened Russian archives, Dunn tells again the story of U.S.-Soviet relations during the war. According to Dunn, FDR underestimated Stalin's capacity for evil and tragically ignored the advice of his ambassadors. Dunn also believes, as many others have, that FDR was blinded by his naive faith that the Soviet Union was evolving into a social democracy. Dunn treats FDR's personal diplomacy harshly, yet for this reason his book can serve as a starting point for another round of reassessments of FDR and his presidency. Recommended for academic and large public libraries.?Edward Goedeken, Iowa State Univ. Lib., AmesCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.