Roosevelt's lost alliances
Subtitle: how personal politics helped start the Cold War
By: Frank Costigliola
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9780691121291
Subjects: Diplomatic history; Cold war; World War, 1939-1945; Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A portrait of the allies as young men : Franklin, Winston, and koba; title: From Missy to Molotov : the women and men who sustained the Big Three; title: The personal touch : forming the alliance, January-August 1941; title: Transcending differences : Eden goes to Moscow and churchill to washington, december 1941; title: Creating the "family circle" : the torturous path to Tehran, 1942-43; title: "I've worked it out": Roosevelt's plan to win the peace and defy death, 1944-45; title: The diplomacy of trauma : Kennan and his colleagues in Moscow, 1933-46; title: Guns and kisses in the Kremlin : ambassadors Harriman and Clark Kerr encounter Stalin, 1943-46; title: "Roosevelt's death has changed everything" : Truman's first days, April-June 1945; title: The lost alliance : widespread anxiety and deepening ideology, July 1945-March 1946; title: Conclusion and epilogue.