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27%OFFFrank Costigliola - Roosevelt´s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War - 9780691157924 - V9780691157924
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Roosevelt´s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War

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Description for Roosevelt´s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages, 26 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJD; HBTW; HBWQ; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 780.
In the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Roosevelt's Lost Alliances captures this moment and shows how FDR crafted a winning coalition by overcoming the different habits, upbringings, sympathies, and past experiences of the three leaders. In particular, Roosevelt trained his famous charm on Stalin, lavishing respect on him, salving his insecurities, and rendering him more amenable to compromise on some matters. Yet, even as he pursued a lasting peace, FDR was alienating his own intimate ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691157924
SKU
V9780691157924
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About Frank Costigliola
Frank Costigliola is professor of history at the University of Connecticut and former president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is the author of France and the United States and Awkward Dominion.

Reviews for Roosevelt´s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War
Winner of the 2013 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Honorable Mention for the 2012 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers "The premise that 'the Cold War was not inevitable' launches this penetrating, personality-focused exploration of its WWII roots and the late 20th century conflict whose aftershocks are ... Read more

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