| Fdr's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis: From the Rise of Hitler to the End of World War II Contributor(s): Mayers, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107031265 ISBN-13: 9781107031265 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $37.04 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 973.917 |
| LCCN: 2012024352 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.68 lbs) 384 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mayers, David: - David Mayers teaches at Boston University, where he holds a joint professorship in the History and Political Science departments. His previous books include Cracking the Monolith: US Policy Against the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1955 (1986), George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy (1988), The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy (1995), Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861-1991 (1998) and Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power (Cambridge University Press, 2007). |
