The New Dealers' War: Franklin D Roosevelt and the War Within World War II
by Thomas Fleming
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0465024645
- ISBN 13
- 9780465024643
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Basic Books, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/fine. A near fine first edition, first printing in a fine dust jacket. Black paper boards under quarter cloth. Gilt title stamping on spine. Russet endpapers. Deckled page edges. Remainder mark bottom edge, otherwise fine. Dust jacket is not price-clipped and without flaws. xii, 628 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits. Octavo. ...Franklin Roosevelt has been lauded by most historiansmost brilliantly by Eric Larrabee in his book Commander in Chief (1987)as a shrewd political and military strategist who conducted both aspects of WWII with great guile, wit and efficiency. Fleming, however, portrays FDR as an inefficient and oafish warmonger spoiling for battle amid world political, economic and social tensions he did not understand. Fleming revives the well-worn canard that FDR wanted, needed and invited the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Then he quibbles with the notions of "unconditional surrender" and "total war" imposed on the Axis powers, speculating that some compromise should have been reached. Fleming fails to see what Roosevelt and Churchill (who called him "the most skilled strategist of all") clearly didthat Hitler and his allies represented not just standard political and military aggression but a new dark age. Fleming implies that Stalin posed an even larger threat to culture and history, but that the left-wingers of Roosevelt's New Deal government were not disposed to see his evil. In truth, Roosevelt had few illusions when it came to the Soviets. Realizing their potential to be either formidable foes or formidable friends, he chose the latterat the same time reminding the sometimes disapproving Churchill that one occasionally needed to fight fire with fire. Forecast: The controversy that will undoubtedly ensue on this book's publication should drive sales up." -- Publishers Weekly
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Details
- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1307
- Title
- The New Dealers' War: Franklin D Roosevelt and the War Within World War II
- Author
- Thomas Fleming
- Format/Binding
- 1/4 cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0465024645
- ISBN 13
- 9780465024643
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- ww ii, pearl harbor, fdr
- Bookseller catalogs
- History & Historiography;
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