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Author : Orville H. Bullitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (469 download)
Download or read book For the President written by Orville H. Bullitt and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Alphonso Taft
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873386791
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1939-1944 written by Robert Alphonso Taft and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents Robert Taft's first term in the United States Senate and marks his entrance onto the national political and policymaking stage.
Author : Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book For the President, Personal and Secret; Correspondence Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and William C. Bullitt written by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters from Bullitt, who was US Ambassador to The Soviet Union (1933-36) and France (1936-1940) and diplomatically involved in the Mideast and Africa (1940-1945), are filled with vivid pictures of the people who were making history during this era and are replete with color and wit.
Author : Wilson D. Miscamble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521862442
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book From Roosevelt to Truman written by Wilson D. Miscamble and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 12, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt died and Harry Truman took his place in the White House. Historians have been arguing ever since about the implications of this transition for American foreign policy in general and relations with the Soviet Union in particular. Was there essential continuity in policy or did Truman's arrival in the Oval Office prompt a sharp reversal away from the approach of his illustrious predecessor? This study explores this controversial issue and in the process casts important light on the outbreak of the Cold War. From Roosevelt to Truman investigates Truman's foreign policy background and examines the legacy that FDR bequeathed to him. After Potsdam and the American use of the atomic bomb, both of which occurred under Truman's presidency, the US floundered between collaboration and confrontation with the Soviets, which represents a turning point in the transformation of American foreign policy. This work reveals that the real departure in American policy came only after the Truman administration had exhausted the legitimate possibilities of the Rooseveltian approach of collaboration with the Soviet Union.
Author : Alexander Etkind
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822983206
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Roads Not Taken written by Alexander Etkind and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist, diplomat, and writer, William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967) negotiated with Lenin and Stalin, Churchill and de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek and Goering. He took part in the talks that ended World War I and those that failed to prevent World War II. While his former disciples led American diplomacy into the Cold War, Bullitt became an early enthusiast of the European Union. From his early (1919) proposal of disassembling the former Russian Empire into dozens of independent states, to his much later (1944) advice to land the American troops in the Balkans rather than in Normandy, Bullitt developed a dissenting vision of the major events of his era. A connoisseur of American politics, Russian history, Viennese psychoanalysis, and French wine, Bullitt was also the author of two novels and a number of plays. A friend of Sigmund Freud, Bullitt coauthored with him a sensational biography of President Wilson. A friend of Bullitt, Mikhail Bulgakov depicted him as the devil figure in The Master and Margarita. Taking seriously Bullitt’s projects and foresights, this book portrays him as an original thinker and elucidates his role as a political actor. His roads were not taken, but the world would have been different if Bullitt’s warnings had been heeded. His experience suggests powerful though lost alternatives to the catastrophic history of the twentieth century. Based on Bullitt’s unpublished papers and diplomatic documents from the Russian archives, this new biography presents Bullitt as a truly cosmopolitan American, one of the first politicians of the global era. It is human ideas and choices, Bullitt’s projects and failures among them, that have brought the world to its current state.
Author : Michael S. Sherry
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300036000
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rise of American Air Power written by Michael S. Sherry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prizewinning book is the first in-depth history of American strategic bombing. Michael S. Sherry explores the growing appeal of air power in America before World War II, the ideas, techniques, personalities, and organizations that guided air attacks during the war, and the devastating effects of American and British "conventional" bombing. He also traces the origins of the dangerous illusion that the bombing of cities would be so horrific that nations would not dare let it occur - an illusion that has sanctioned the growth of nuclear arsenals.
Author : J. Rofe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230604897
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Franklin Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy and the Welles Mission written by J. Rofe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and original analysis of the mission undertaken by FDR's Secretary of State during the Phoney War, Rofe's work explains the motivations and goals of Roosevelt through an analysis of the president's foreign policy and of the nature of the Anglo-American relationship of the time.
Author : Benjamin F. Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199942080
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Eisenhower's Guerrillas written by Benjamin F. Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eisenhower's guerillas' tells the story of the reconnaissance and intelligence teams of young Special Forces, called Jedburghs, who worked behind enemy lines to strengthen the Allies' position in Northern France.0Their task of organizing and training the French operatives, already monumental, was made more difficult by the fact that France's war aims were profoundly different from those of America and Britain, who regarded France as merely a military objective on the way to defeating Germany. Ben Jones describes how Eisenhower learned how to exploit this political turmoil to his advantage, and explores how the Allied Jedburgh teams still managed to coordinate French guerrilla operations within the overall plans for the country's liberation.
Author : Mary E. Glantz
Publisher : Modern War Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book FDR and the Soviet Union written by Mary E. Glantz and published by Modern War Studies. This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt was determined to pursue a peaceful accommodation with an increasingly powerful Soviet Union, an inclination reinforced by the onset of world war. Roosevelt knew that defeating the Axis powers would require major contributions by the Soviets and their Red Army, and so, despite his misgivings about Stalin's expansionist motives, he pushed for friendlier relations. Yet almost from the moment he was inaugurated, lower-level officials challenged FDR's ability to carry out this policy. Mary Glantz analyzes tensions shaping the policy stance of the United States toward the Soviet Union before, during, and immediately after World War II. Focusing on the conflicts between a president who sought close relations between the two nations and the diplomatic and military officers who opposed them, she shows how these career officers were able to resist and shape presidential policy-and how their critical views helped shape the parameters of the subsequent Cold War. Venturing into the largely uncharted waters of bureaucratic politics, Glantz examines overlooked aspects of wartime relations between Washington and Moscow to highlight the roles played by U.S. personnel in the U.S.S.R. in formulating and implementing policies governing the American-Soviet relationship. She takes readers into the American embassy in Moscow to show how individuals like Ambassadors Joseph Davies, Lawrence Steinhadt, and Averell Harriman and U.S. military attachs like Joseph Michela influenced policy, and reveals how private resistance sometimes turned into public dispute. She also presents new material on the controversial military attach/lend-lease director Phillip Faymonville, a largely neglected officer who understood the Soviet system and supported Roosevelt's policy. Deftly combining military with diplomatic history, Glantz traces these philosophical and policy battles to show how difficult it was for even a highly popular president like Roosevelt to overcome such entrenched and determined opposition. Although he reorganized federal offices and appointed ambassadors who shared his views, in the end he was unable to outlast his bureaucratic opponents or change their minds. With his death, anti-Soviet factions rushed into the policymaking vacuum to become the primary architects of Truman's Cold War "containment" policy. A case study in foreign relations, high-level policymaking, and civil-military relations, FDR and the Soviet Union enlarges our understanding of the ideologies and events that set the stage for the Cold War. It adds a new dimension to our understanding of Soviet-American relations as it sheds new light on the surprising power of those in low places.
Author : Nicole Dombrowski Risser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139536966
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book France under Fire written by Nicole Dombrowski Risser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We request an immediate favour of you, to build a shelter for us women and small children, because we have absolutely no place to take refuge and we are terrified!' This French mother's petition sent to her mayor on the eve of Germany's 1940 invasion of France reveals civilians' security concerns unleashed by the Blitzkrieg fighting tactics of World War II. Unprepared for air warfare's assault on civilian psyches, French planners were among the first in history to respond to civilian security challenges posed by aerial bombardment. France under Fire offers a social, political and military examination of the origins of the French refugee crisis of 1940, a mass displacement of eight million civilians fleeing German combatants. Scattered throughout a divided France, refugees turned to German Occupation officials and Vichy administrators for relief and repatriation. Their solutions raised questions about occupying powers' obligations to civilians and elicited new definitions of refugees' rights.
Author : Gary Kern
Publisher : Enigma Books
ISBN 13 : 1929631731
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Kravchenko Case written by Gary Kern and published by Enigma Books. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Kravchenko--the most discussed Soviet defector at the height of the Cold War.
Author : Michael Clarke
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030301753
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book American Grand Strategy and National Security written by Michael Clarke and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is focused on explaining the grand strategic behavior of the United States from the Founding of the Republic to the Trump administration. To do so it employs a neoclassical realist framework to argue that while systemic change explains the broad evolution of US grand strategy, the precise shape and content of the grand strategies pursued has been conditioned by domestic political culture and interests. The book argues that distinct political cultures of statecraft (Hamiltonian, Jeffersonian, Jacksonian and Wilsonian) have acted as permissive filters through which policy-makers have interpreted and responded to systemic stimuli making some grand strategy choices more likely than others in the pursuit of national security. The book demonstrates that while primacist grand strategies were facilitated by the predominance from the mid-19th century to the early 21st century of the vindicationist Hamiltonian and Wilsonian forms of statecraft, the costs of primacy have now stimulated the resurgence of the long dormant, exemplarist Jeffersonian and Jacksonian forms of statecraft under the Obama and Trump administrations, resulting in grand strategies that seek to either manage or stave off decline in America’s relative power position.
Author : Ernest R. May
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140085606X
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Knowing One's Enemies written by Ernest R. May and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In essays that illuminate not only the recent past but shortcomings in today's intelligence assessments, sixteen experts show how prospective antagonists appraised each other prior to the World Wars. This cautionary tale, warns that intelligence agencies can do certain things very well--but other things poorly, if at all. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Julian G. Hurstfield
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807873896
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book America and the French Nation, 1939-1945 written by Julian G. Hurstfield and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurstfield analyzes American responses--diplomatic, military, intellectual, and popular--to the plight of the French nation during World War II, as the constitution of the Third Republic was suspended, Petain ruled in Vichy, the Germans administered Occupied France, DeGaulle organized the Free French movement, and an internal French resistance slowly gathered strength. Interweaving diplomatic and intellectual history, the author combines analysis with a sensitive account of American currents of opinion. Originally published in 1986. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : David James Gill
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300247184
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Long Shadow of Default written by David James Gill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the causes and consequences of Britain's default on its First World War debts to the United States of America The Long Shadow of Default focuses on an important but neglected example of sovereign default between two of the wealthiest and most powerful democracies in modern history. The United Kingdom accrued considerable financial debts to the United States during and immediately after the First World War. In 1934, the British government unilaterally suspended payment on these debts. This book examines why the United Kingdom was one of the last major powers to default on its war debts to the United States and how these outstanding obligations affected political and economic relations between both governments. The British government's unpaid debts cast a surprisingly long shadow over policymaking on both sides of the Atlantic. Memories of British default would limit transatlantic cooperation before and after the Second World War, inform Congressional debates about the economic difficulties of the 1970s, and generate legal challenges for both governments up until the 1990s. More than a century later, the United Kingdom's war debts to the United States remain unpaid and outstanding. David James Gill provides one of the most detailed historical analyses of any sovereign default. He brings attention to an often-neglected episode in international history to inform, refine, and sometimes challenge the wider study of sovereign default.
Author : Alastair Kocho-Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023035520X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Russian and Soviet Diplomacy, 1900-39 written by Alastair Kocho-Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the impact of the Russian Revolution and change and continuity in diplomacy during the transition from Empire to Soviet Union, this book examines how Russia's diplomacy was conducted, the diplomats behind it, the establishment of the Soviet diplomatic corps and the steps taken to integrate the Soviets into the diplomatic world.
Author : David Mayers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107031265
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis written by David Mayers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of American diplomacy in the Second World War and the ways US ambassadors shaped formal foreign policy.
