Charles Beard

President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941 (eBook, ePUB)

Appearances and Realities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Conceived by Charles Beard as a sequel to his provocative study of American Foreign Policy in the Making, 1932-1940, President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War outraged a nation, permanently damaging Beard's status as America's most influential historian.

Beard's main argument is that both Democratic and Republican leaders, but Roosevelt above all, worked quietly in 1940 and 1941 to insinuate the United States into the Second World War. Basing his work on available congressional records and administrative reports, Beard concludes that FDR's image as a neutral, peace-loving leader was a smokescreen, behind which he planned for war against Germany and Japan even well before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Beard contends that the distinction between aiding allies in Europe like Great Britain and maintaining strict neutrality with respect to nations like Germany and Japan was untenable. Beard does not argue that all nations were alike, or that some did and others did not merit American support, but rather that Roosevelt chose to aid Great Britain secretly and unconstitutionally rather than making the case to the American public. President Roosevelt shifted from a policy of neutrality to one of armed intervention, but he did so without surrendering the appearance, the fiction of neutrality. This core argument makes the work no less explosive in 2003 than it was when first issued in 1948.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 614
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351496896
• Artikelnr.: 49377908

Inhaltsangabe

I: Appearances
I: Moral Commitments for the Conduct of Foreign Affairs in 1941
II: Representations of Lend-Lease Aid to the Allies
III: Patrolling as Appearances
IV: The Atlantic Conference-Appearances
V: "In Case of Attack" in the Atlantic
VI: No Call for "Any Declaration of War"
VI: Appearances of Relations with Japan
VIII: The Attack-Official Explanation
II: Unveiling Realities
IX: The Beginning of Revelations
X: The Official Thesis Challenged in Congress and the Press
XI: Army and Navy Boards Undermine the Official Thesis
XII: A Congressional Committee Probes the Records and Reports
III: Realities as Described by the Pearl Harbor Documents
XIII: Engineering the Official Thesis of Guilt
XIV: Secret War Decisions and Plans
XV: Actualities of the Atlantic Conference
XVI: "Complicated. Moves" in Relations with Japan
XVII: Maneuvering the Japanese into Firing the First Shot
IV: Epilogue
XVIII: Interpretations Tested by Consequences