Sailor (eBook)

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of American Foreign Policy

David F. Schmitz (Autor)

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2021
304 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-8046-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The Sailor is an important interpretive analysis of the Roosevelt administration's foreign policy. By challenging previously held assumptions, Schmitz constructs a new narrative about FDR's overall attitude to the US and its role in a postwar world. He shows how FDR successfully transformed US neutrality into US internationalism, forever changing the direction of American foreign policy.

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In The Sailor, David F. Schmitz presents a comprehensive reassessment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's foreign policymaking. Most historians have cast FDR as a leader who resisted an established international strategy and who was forced to react quickly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, launching the nation into World War II. Drawing on a wealth of primary documents as well as the latest secondary sources, Schmitz challenges this view, demonstrating that Roosevelt was both consistent and calculating in guiding the direction of American foreign policy throughout his presidency.Schmitz illuminates how the policies FDR pursued in response to the crises of the 1930s transformed Americans' thinking about their place in the world. He shows how the president developed an interlocking set of ideas that prompted a debate between isolationism and preparedness, guided the United States into World War II, and mobilized support for the war while establishing a sense of responsibility for the postwar world. The critical moment came in the period between Roosevelt's reelection in 1940 and the Pearl Harbor attack, when he set out his view of the US as the arsenal of democracy, proclaimed his war goals centered on protection of the four freedoms, secured passage of the Lend-Lease Act, and announced the principles of the Atlantic Charter.This long-overdue book presents a definitive new perspective on Roosevelt's diplomacy and the emergence of the United States as a world power. Schmitz's work offers an important correction to existing studies and establishes FDR as arguably the most significant and successful foreign policymaker in the nation's history.

Autor

David F. Schmitz is the Robert Allen Skotheim Chair of History at Whitman College. He is the author of several books, including Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War: The End of the American Century and The Triumph of Internationalism: Franklin D. Roosevelt and a World in Crisis, 1933–1941. He lives in Walla Walla, Washington.

Inhalt

Introduction
1. Exceptionalism and Internationalism
2. Constructing an Internationalist Framework, 1933-1936
3. International Crises, 1937-1940
4. The Fulcrum of Roosevelt's Foreign Policy
5. Internationalism and War
6. Forging the Grand Alliance
7. Architect of Victory
8. Victory, Roosevelt's Synthesis, and the Postwar World, 1944-1945
Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.2.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: "Arsenal of Democracy" • Atlantic Charter • Battle of the Atlantic • Bretton Woods • D-Day • Dumbarton Oaks Conference • exceptionalism • FDR • foreign policy • Four Freedoms • Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Good Neighbor Policy • Grand Alliance • grand strategy • Great Debate • IMF • internationalism • internationalist • International Monetary Fund • International Relations • Lend-lease • national security • Neutrality Act • Pearl Harbor • President • Quarantine Speech • sailor • Teheran Conference • Treaty of Versailles • United Nations • World Bank • World War II • WWII • Yalta
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-8046-5 / 0813180465
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-8046-5 / 9780813180465