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Hoover vs. Roosevelt - Two Presidents' Battle over Feeding Europe and Going to War (Hardcover)
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Hoover vs. Roosevelt - Two Presidents' Battle over Feeding Europe and Going to War (Hardcover)
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In the Depression election of 1932, Franklin Roosevelt crushed
Herbert Hoover in one of the most lopsided presidential contests in
American history. The White House rivals remained enemies long
after: Hoover opposed the New Deal, and FDR found Hoover a
convenient punching bag in elections throughout the Thirties. From
Coolidge's death in 1933 to Truman's departure in 1953, Hoover was
the only living former president of either party, and he maintained
a strong international reputation, thanks to his achievements as an
engineer and his efforts during World War I to organize aid for the
starving millions of Europe. And yet, in nearly all accounts of the
ferocious debate over American aid to Europe before the U.S.
entered World War II, Hoover's role has been overlooked. Hoover
versus Roosevelt tells the story of how the U.S. entered World War
II through the lens of Herbert Hoover. The debate over entering
World War II before Pearl Harbor remains one of the most
contentious in American history. Historian Arthur Schlesinger
called it "the most savage political debate of my lifetime"-more
vicious, that great scholar of American history thought, than the
arguments over McCarthyism and Vietnam. Most accounts have focused
on isolationism versus internationalism, Lindbergh versus
Roosevelt, but the story is deeper and more complex than that and
involves the transition of an older era of international
relations-exemplified by Hoover, who believed in the Geneva Accord,
the Hague Conventions, and public-private partnerships to address
world crises-to the modern era of total war. Widely and deeply
researched in an array of rarely used secondary and primary
sources, both domestic and international, Hoover versus Roosevelt
brings a fresh perspective to a time in our nation's history when
our country was deeply divided over what now seems a "done deal."
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