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FDR's ambassadors and the diplomacy of crisis : from the rise of Hitler to the end of World War II / David Mayers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayers, David Allan, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Ambassadors--United States--History--20th century.
- Ambassadors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 372 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- FDR's Ambassadors & the Diplomacy of Crisis
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What effect did personality and circumstance have on US foreign policy during World War II? This incisive account of US envoys residing in the major belligerent countries - Japan, Germany, Italy, China, France, Great Britain, USSR - highlights the fascinating role played by such diplomats as Joseph Grew, William Dodd, William Bullitt, Joseph Kennedy and W. Averell Harriman. Between Hitler's 1933 ascent to power and the 1945 bombing of Nagasaki, US ambassadors sculpted formal policy - occasionally deliberately, other times inadvertently - giving shape and meaning not always intended by Franklin D. Roosevelt or predicted by his principal advisors. From appeasement to the Holocaust and the onset of the Cold War, David Mayers examines the complicated interaction between policy, as conceived in Washington, and implementation on the ground in Europe and Asia. By so doing, he also sheds needed light on the fragility, ambiguities and enduring urgency of diplomacy and its crucial function in international politics.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Axis: 1. Rising sun; 2. Third Reich; 3. New Roman Empire; Part II. Victims: 4. Middle Kingdom; 5. France Agonistes; Part III. Victors: 6. Britannia; 7. Great Patriotic War; 8. Conclusions: US diplomacy and war; Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-139-85441-0
- 1-107-23770-X
- 1-139-84533-0
- 1-139-84060-6
- 1-107-25494-9
- 1-139-84297-8
- 1-139-38156-3
- 1-283-74156-3
- 1-139-84178-5
- OCLC:
- 818883483
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