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The Four Freedoms. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea.
Jeffrey A. . Ed(S): Engel
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Editor(s): Engel, Jeffrey A. Num Pages: 248 pages, 25 hts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as 1941 began. He believed the United States had a role to play in the battle against Nazi and fascist aggression already underway in Europe. Isolationists, political opponents, and arguably the majority of Americans disagreed. The wounds of the First World War had not yet fully healed, while the Great Depression largely still raged. The words he used to rally the nation towards war ultimately defined not only what Americans fought for in World War II, but how they defined themselves as a people for generations after. ... Read more
The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as 1941 began. He believed the United States had a role to play in the battle against Nazi and fascist aggression already underway in Europe. Isolationists, political opponents, and arguably the majority of Americans disagreed. The wounds of the First World War had not yet fully healed, while the Great Depression largely still raged. The words he used to rally the nation towards war ultimately defined not only what Americans fought for in World War II, but how they defined themselves as a people for generations after. ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199376216
SKU
V9780199376216
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About Jeffrey A. . Ed(S): Engel
Jeffrey A. Engel is founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Engel has authored or edited eight books on American foreign policy, including Cold War at 30, Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy, The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President, The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary ... Read more
Reviews for The Four Freedoms. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea.
illuminates Roosevelt's 'contribution' to the 'evolution and import of freedom as a concept and as an ideological tool' and examines how those ideas were contested, implemented, altered, limited, and abandoned in both the United States and across the world
Richard F. Hamm, H-FedHist
Richard F. Hamm, H-FedHist