The Sphinx Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II
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ePUB
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Nein
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Nein
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
27.10.2014
Verlag
W. W. Norton & CompanySeitenzahl
464 (Printausgabe)
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780393245820
Before Pearl Harbor, before the Nazi invasion of Poland, America teetered between the desire for isolation and the threat of world war.
May 1938. Franklin Delano Rooseveltrecently reelected to a second term as presidentsat in the Oval Office and contemplated two possibilities: the rule of fascism overseas, and a third term.
With Hitler's reach extending into Austria, and with the atrocities of World War I still fresh in the American memory, Roosevelt faced the question that would prove one of the most defining in American history: whether to once again go to war in Europe.
In The Sphinx, Nicholas Wapshott recounts how an ambitious and resilient Rooseveltnicknamed "the Sphinx" for his cunning, cryptic rapport with the pressdevised and doggedly pursued a strategy to sway the American people to abandon isolationism and take up the mantle of the world's most powerful nation.
Chief among Roosevelt's antagonists was his friend Joseph P. Kennedy, a stock market magnate and the patriarch of what was to become one of the nation's most storied dynasties. Kennedy's financial, political, and personal interests aligned him with a war-weary American public, and he counted among his isolationist allies no less than Walt Disney, William Randolph Hearst, and Henry Fordprominent businessmen who believed America had no business in conflicts across the Atlantic.
The ensuing battlewaged with fiery rhetoric, agile diplomacy, media sabotage, and petty political anticswould land US troops in Europe within three years, secure Roosevelt's legacy, and set a standard for American military strategy for years to come.
With millions of livesand a future paradigm of foreign interventionhanging in the balance, The Sphinx captures a political giant at the height of his powers and an American identity crisis that continues to this day.
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