War and Foreign Policy

Roosevelt’s Road to Russia

Tags: Big Government, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

09/16/1959 • George Crocker

From the author: Randolph Bourne, one of the critical commentators of the Woodrow Wilson period, once wrote that war is like a wild elephant: it carries the rider where it desires, not where he may desire. Perhaps the historian predilected to...

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The Twenty-Year Revolution: from Roosevelt to Eisenhower

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09/03/1954 • Chesly Manly

From the author: As Thomas Paine wrote in The Crisis, in 1776, “These are times that try men’s souls.” The question then was whether the American revolution could be saved. The·question now is whether the American Republic, born in a patriotic...

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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

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07/17/1953 • Harry Elmer Barnes

This book is a critical survey and appraisal of the development of American foreign policy during the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and of its results, as they have affected the course of world history, the national interest of the United...

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A Foreign Policy for Americans

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12/18/1952 • Robert A. Taft

Written in 1951, Taft argued that the freedom of the people of the United States was — as it is now — in serious danger from the foreign and domestic policies of the political class . From the foreword: Today we face threats to our liberty and...

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Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941

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04/12/1952 • Charles Callan Tansill

Charles Callan Tansill , one of the foremost American diplomatic historians of the twentieth century, argues that FDR wished to involve the United States in the European War that began in September 1939. When he proved unable to do so directly...

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While You Slept

Tags: Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

11/01/1951 • John T. Flynn

The amazing step-by-step, person-by-person story of how the American left wing took over our most influential media — radio, movies, magazines and books — and persuaded our leaders to support the Communist Plan to turn China and Korea over to...

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America’s Second Crusade

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

03/16/1950 • William Henry Chamberlin

Was World War II a failure? It is an unthinkable thought in the American political ethos. but noted American journalist and author William Henry Chamberlin dares think it, from the vantage point of the immediate postwar world of 1950. “Not one...

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Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War

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09/29/1947 • George Morgenstern

George Morgenstern’s Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War has to be one of the bravest books ever written. It’s a wonder it came out at all, but it did, in 1947, just as the war ended and FDR had died. It argues that the bombing was not...

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The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution

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09/15/1940 • John T. Flynn

Flynn remarks on the impetus behind this powerful book: I wrote this book to answer a question that practically everybody is asking: “Where are we heading?” More people ask that question than any other.... I thought it was about time for someone...

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The Merchants of Death

Tags: War and Foreign Policy, World History

06/15/1934 • H.C. Engelbrecht • F. C. Hanighen

Here is the archetype of all post–World War I revisionism of a particular variety: the hunt for the people who made the big bucks off the killing machine. The Merchants of Death was, in many ways, the manifesto of a generation of people who...

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