Roosevelt's Lost Alliances How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War

Name: Roosevelt's Lost Alliances How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War
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ISBN: 9780691157924

ISBN-10: 0691157928

ISBN-13: 9780691157924

Edition: 2013

Authors: Frank Costigliola

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In the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.Roosevelt's Lost Alliancescaptures this moment and shows how FDR crafted a winning coalition by overcoming the different habits, upbringings, sympathies, and past experiences of the three leaders. In particular, Roosevelt trained his famous charm on Stalin, lavishing respect on him, salving his insecurities, and rendering him more amenable to compromise on some matters.Yet, even as he pursued a lasting peace, FDR was alienating his own intimate circle of advisers and becoming dangerously isolated.…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.25" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of Key Players


Introduction



A Portrait of the Allies as Young Men: Franklin, Winston, and Koba



From Missy to Molotov: The Women and Men Who Sustained the Big Three



The Personal Touch: Forming the Alliance, January-August 1941



Transcending Differences: Eden Goes to Moscow and Churchill to Washington, December 1941



Creating the "Family Circle": The Tortuous Path to Tehran, 1942-43



"I've Worked It Out": Roosevelt's Plan to Win the Peace and Defy Death, 1944-45



The Diplomacy of Trauma: Kennan and His Colleagues in Moscow, 1933-46



Guns and Kisses in the Kremlin: Ambassadors Harriman and Clark Kerr Encounter Stalin, 1943-46



"Roosevelt's Death Has Changed Everything": Truman's First Days, April-June 1945



The Lost Alliance: Widespread Anxiety and Deepening Ideology, July 1945-March 1946


Conclusion and Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Bibliographical Note


Notes


Index