At the president's pleasure
Subtitle: FDR's leadership of wartime Sino-US relations
By: by Sally K. Burt
Series: Studies on East Asian security and international relations -- volume 3
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9789004288232; 9789004288249
Subjects: Diplomatic history; Influence; Foreign relations; World War, 1939-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: Leaders and presidents; title: Hail to the chief: FDR's leadership style; title: "The most important factor in the whole east": FDR's vision for Sino-US relations; title: A vision without a plan: FDR's wartime China policies; title: "The deckhand diplomat": Ambassador Gauss and General Stilwell in China; title: Washington mandarins: FDR's personal representatives to China; title: Rubberlegs, the peanut and the limeys: FDR's summit diplomacy; title: The changing of the guard.