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Book Synopsis William Edward Dodd by : Fred Arthur Bailey
Download or read book William Edward Dodd written by Fred Arthur Bailey and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a Southern scholar who rose from an impoverished background to become a political activist, an American ambassador in Hitler's Germany, and a Southern historian. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Democrat and Diplomat by : Robert Dallek
Download or read book Democrat and Diplomat written by Robert Dallek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Dallek, a luminary in the field of political biography--author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nixon and Kissinger and the New York Times bestselling biography of John F. Kennedy--offers here a look at the life of William Dodd, an American diplomat stationed in Nazi Germany. An insightful historical account, Democrat and Diplomat exposes the dark underbelly of 1930s Germany and explores the terrible burden of those who realized the horror that was to come. Dodd was the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937, arriving in Berlin with his wife and daughter just as Hitler assumed the chancellorship. An unlikely candidate for the job--and not President Roosevelt's first choice--Dodd quickly came to realize that the situation in Germany was far grimmer than was understood in America. His early optimism was soon replaced by dire reports on the treatment of Jewish citizens and his pessimism about the future of Germany and Europe. Finding unwilling listeners back in the U.S., Dodd clashed repeatedly with the State Department, as well as the Nazi government, during his time as ambassador. He eventually resigned and returned to America, despairing and in ill-health. Dodd's story was brought into public prominence last year by Erik Larsen's New York Times bestseller The Garden of Beasts. Dallek's biography, first published in 1968 and now in paperback for the first time, tells the full story of the man and his doomed years in the darkness of pre-War Berlin.
Download or read book William Edward Dodd written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter partial envelope America/Germany William Edward Dodd (born October 21, 1869; died February 9, 1940) served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937. On October 12, 1933, Dodd gave a speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin, with Joseph Goebbels and Alfred Rosenberg in attendance, and used an elaborate analogy, based on Roman history, to criticize the Nazis as half-educated statesmen who adopted the arbitrary modes of an ancient tyrant. His views grew more critical and pessimistic with the Night of the Long Knives. He was one of the very few in the U.S. and European diplomatic community who reported that the Nazis were too strongly entrenched for any opposition to emerge. In May 1935 he reported to his State Department superiors that Hitler intended to annex part of the Corridor, part of Czechoslovakia, and all of Austria. A few months later he predicted a German-Italian alliance, but was largely ignored. He offered to resign, but President Roosevelt merely requested a sabbatical in the U.S. for his health. However, reacting later to complaints about Dodd's effectiveness as well as his health, Roosevelt notified the State Department in April 1937 that he was prepared to see Dodd's tenure end on September 1. Upon his arrival in the U.S in August, 1937, Dodd said that the basic objective of some powers in Europe is to frighten and even destroy democracies everywhere. This provoked a formal protest on the part of the German Ambassador to the U.S. Given that exchange, the State Department determined that it was more important that Dodd return to Germany than to allow his resignation to appear as a response to German protests. Dodd left a resignation letter before returning to Germany, and suggested the following March as a suitable date for his resignation. However, in September, his dispute with the State Department over U.S. diplomatic presence at the Nuremberg rallies became public. The German government told the State Department that Dodd could no longer function in Berlin. Dodd was surprised when told in November to prepare to depart by the end of the year. His resignation was announced in December. After a year's illness, Dodd died on February 9, 1940, at his country home at Round Hill, Loudoun County, Virginia.[ Photo retrieved from Corbis Images 8/9/2012.
Download or read book The Old South written by William E. Dodd and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
Book Synopsis In The Garden of Beasts by : Erik Larson
Download or read book In The Garden of Beasts written by Erik Larson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A compelling tale... a narrative that makes such a brave effort to see history as it evolves and not as it becomes.' SPECTATOR Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the times, and with brilliant portraits of Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and Himmler amongst others, Erik Larson's new book sheds unique light on events as they unfold, resulting in an unforgettable, addictively readable work of narrative history. Berlin,1933. William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered academic from Chicago, has to his own and everyone else's surprise, become America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany, in a year that proves to be a turning point in history. Dodd and his family, notably his vivacious daughter, Martha, observe at first-hand the many changes - some subtle, some disturbing, and some horrifically violent - that signal Hitler's consolidation of power. Dodd has little choice but to associate with key figures in the Nazi party, his increasingly concerned cables make little impact on an indifferent U.S. State Department, while Martha is drawn to the Nazis and their vision of a 'New Germany' and has a succession of affairs with senior party players, including first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as the year darkens, Dodd and his daughter find their lives transformed and any last illusion they might have about Hitler are shattered by the violence of the 'Night of the Long Knives' in the summer of 1934 that established him as supreme dictator . . .
Book Synopsis In the garden of beasts by : Erik Larson
Download or read book In the garden of beasts written by Erik Larson and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the 'New Germany,' she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance - and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler's true character and ruthless ambition.
Book Synopsis Expansion and Conflict by : William Edward Dodd
Download or read book Expansion and Conflict written by William Edward Dodd and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this volume is to show the action and reaction of the most important social, economic, political, and personal forces that have entered into the make-up of the United States as a nation. The primary assumption of the author is that the people of this country did not compose a nation until after the close of the Civil War in 1865. Of scarcely less importance is the fact that the decisive motive behind the different groups in Congress at every great crisis of the period under discussion was sectional advantage or even sectional aggrandizement. If Webster ceased to be a particularist after 1824 and became a nationalist before 1830, it was because the interests of New England had undergone a similar change; or, if Calhoun deserted about the same time the cause of nationalism and became the most ardent of sectionalists, it was also because the interests of his constituents, the cotton and tobacco planters of the South, had become identified with particularism, that is, States rights.
Book Synopsis Ambassador Dodd's Diary, 1933-1938 by : William Edward Dodd (Jr.)
Download or read book Ambassador Dodd's Diary, 1933-1938 written by William Edward Dodd (Jr.) and published by New York : Harcourt, Brace. This book was released on 1941 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author was Ambassador to Germany.
Book Synopsis Ambassador Dodd's Diary 1933-1938. Ed. by William E. Dodd Jr and Martha Dodd by : William Edward Dodd
Download or read book Ambassador Dodd's Diary 1933-1938. Ed. by William E. Dodd Jr and Martha Dodd written by William Edward Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Professor William E. Dodd's Diary, 1916-1920 by : William Edward Dodd
Download or read book Professor William E. Dodd's Diary, 1916-1920 written by William Edward Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ambassador Dodd's Diary, 1933-1938. Edited by William E. Dodd, Jr., and Martha Dodd; With an Introd. by Charles A. Beard by : Martha Dodd
Download or read book Ambassador Dodd's Diary, 1933-1938. Edited by William E. Dodd, Jr., and Martha Dodd; With an Introd. by Charles A. Beard written by Martha Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ambassador Dodd's Diary : 1933-1938/edited by William E. Dodd, Jr. and Martha Dodd ; with an Introduction by Charles A. Beard by : William E. Dodd (Jr.)
Download or read book Ambassador Dodd's Diary : 1933-1938/edited by William E. Dodd, Jr. and Martha Dodd ; with an Introduction by Charles A. Beard written by William E. Dodd (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ambassador Dodd's Diary, 1933-1938. Edited by William E. Dodd, Jr., and Martha Dodd, Etc by : William Edward DODD (the Younger.)
Download or read book Ambassador Dodd's Diary, 1933-1938. Edited by William E. Dodd, Jr., and Martha Dodd, Etc written by William Edward DODD (the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Watching Darkness Fall by : David McKean
Download or read book Watching Darkness Fall written by David McKean and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentions As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the U.S. Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy nor his chateau, an eighteenth Renaissance manse with a wine cellar of over 18,000 bottles, even though “we have only two revolvers in this entire mission with only forty bullets.” As German forces closed in on the French capital, Bullitt wrote the president, “In case I should get blown up before I see you again, I want you to know that it has been marvelous to work for you.” As the fighting raged in France, across the English Channel, Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph P. Kennedy wrote to his wife Rose, “The situation is more than critical. It means a terrible finish for the allies.” David McKean's Watching Darkness Fall will recount the rise of the Third Reich in Germany and the road to war from the perspective of four American diplomats in Europe who witnessed it firsthand: Joseph Kennedy, William Dodd, Breckinridge Long, and William Bullitt, who all served in key Western European capitals—London, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and Moscow—in the years prior to World War II. In many ways they were America’s first line of defense and they often communicated with the president directly, as Roosevelt's eyes and ears on the ground. Unfortunately, most of them underestimated the power and resolve of Adolf Hitler and Germany’s Third Reich. Watching Darkness Fall is a gripping new history of the years leading up to and the beginning of WWII in Europe told through the lives of five well-educated and mostly wealthy men all vying for the attention of the man in the Oval Office.
Book Synopsis Woodrow Wilson and His Work by : William Edward Dodd
Download or read book Woodrow Wilson and His Work written by William Edward Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays in Honor of William Edward Dodd by : Avery Craven
Download or read book Essays in Honor of William Edward Dodd written by Avery Craven and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Through Embassy Eyes by : Martha Dodd
Download or read book Through Embassy Eyes written by Martha Dodd and published by New York : Harcourt, Brace. This book was released on 1939 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
