In the time of the Americans : FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur--the generation that changed America's role in the world

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In the time of the Americans : FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur--the generation that changed America's role in the world
Description
A group of men who led America away from isolationism to preeminence in international affairs.
Identifier
534297
394589017
Creator
Fromkin, David
Format
1st ed.
Source
Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection
Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.
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Language
eng
Date
1995
Program air date: October 22, 1995
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives
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Notes on front endpaper: William Bullitt, Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson. What was the Marshall Plan. Walter Lippmann/John Reed. You say Eisenhower as a politician was deceiving. Averell Harriman, Robert Taft. Education of Henry Adams. Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings: Lamb notes Fromkin's objective for the book, political leanings/objectives of the players focused on in the book, changes in the US as it moved through the 20th century. Notes: "Bullitt," "Third World politics," "Cowboy novels v. Ian Fleming," "WWI," "TR," "Bryan troubled," "Ohio/New Y.," "Britain's influence," "Henry Adams," "no medal of honor," "Wilson & TR," "Lucy Mercer," "Lippmann," "Hate War, Peace!," "The Inquiry 1917: Walter Lippmann, 28; Felix Frankfurter, William Bullitt; Sumner Welles; Newton D. Baker; Christian Herter; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Edward House," "John Reed," "WWI censorship," "Wilson criticism Lippmann," "Truman about Wilson in Paris 1919," "1918 FDR," "FDR goes to Europe for the first time," "Letters of Lucy," "no one is happy," "IKE 1919," "Wilson collapsed, gone mad? Stroke," "U.S. rejected League," "Wilson hated T.R.," "Germans were a race," "FDR balance budget," "Korean War--Truman, Marshall, IKE, MacA," "Forrestal," "Hoover, Offie, Welles, Gay," "America dominated the planet," "isolation," "possess more land, not people," "diverse men," "Woodrow Wilson's failures," "Imperial Britain," "coping with change," "America further self-sacrifice," "Kennedy and Vietnam," "Soviet Union/Stalin."
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Original Booknotes interview
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