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Hard Bargain

Categorie	Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer	#365543
Titel	Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law, and Changed the Role of the American Presidency
Auteur	Shogan, Robert
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Westview Press
Jaar van uitgave	1999
ISBN10	0813336953
ISBN13	9780813336954
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, a few illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	With Hard Bargain, Robert Shogan offers an account of one of World War II's most dramatic chapters? the story of how Franklin D. Roosevelt secretly brokered a deal to provide the destroyers Winston Churchill needed to save Britain from destruction. At the center of the momentous events of 1940 are two extraordinary leaders: Churchill, the forthright pragmatist, and Roosevelt, the suave politician. As Hitler's war machine threatened to starve England into submission, these two men initiated a complex negotiation that would shatter all precedents for conducting foreign policy. FDR yearned to enter the war, but was handcuffed by domestic politics. Churchill had to plead for American intervention at a time when the United States was intensely isolationist. Drawing on archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Shogan masterfully recreates the President's maneuvers as FDR stepped around the Constitution in order to clinch the deal, a move that has had repercussions from Korea to the Persian Gulf.
Pagina's	320
Conditie	Goed — Black permanent marker line on bottom cut.
Prijs	€ 8,00

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