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"Solidly challenging the idea that World War II was a "good war," The New Dealers' War offers a drastically new look at the conflict that has dominated the history of the twentieth century. For many Americans, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's role in leading the United States throughout most of World War II has made him one of America's most venerated presidents. Biographers have all but lionized FDR for his war leadership, a tendency that has been reinforced lately as Americans celebrate the riches of memory by saluting the generation that won that titanic global conflict with blockbuster movies and best-selling books. But, as Thomas Fleming reminds us, memory is not history, and in The New Dealers' War, he reveals an entirely different Roosevelt from the one that most people like to remember." "Unquestionably, The New Dealers' War is one of those rare books that will force readers to rethink what they think they know about one of the most pivotal events in the American past. It will surely spark debate about FDR's role in shaping the course of history in the twentieth century."--Jacket. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book describes how Franklin Roosevelt as a preeminent politician did all he could to pull the United States out of the Great Depression slowly cajole and push to convince the citizens to enter World War II which ultimately occurred by Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and Germany’s declaration of war on the United States.
The War was largely a political war between the adamant new dealers and Franklin Roosevelt’s unorthodox leadership style, which was often undermining to those he put into power in a large variety of alphabet soup agencies and changing positions with what sometimes appears to be the changing of political whims. Roosevelt always portrayed himself a left of center politician who slowly replaced many many of his most liberal appointees and cabinet members and 2 Vice Presidents with more conservative and business oriented individuals.
The secondary war was with those who wholeheartedly believed in communism and the Soviet Union as a friendly nation paving the way of the future, those fervent anti-communists and those willing to make any bargains to beat the Germans and the Nazi Regime and Imperial Japan.
Ultimately Roosevelt led both wars with the same style he believed he was right and could through sheer will convince his political opponents and Stalin to follow his lead, but ultimately the stress of leading the country through war and the Great Depression overwhelmed his body and ultimately paid the price of a weakened body and early death.
A found this book to be extremely interesting and unusual in the focus of a World War II on non military aspects of the war.
A solid 4 star read. ( )