Defenseless Under the Night: The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security

by Matthew Dallek

Book Overview

In his 1933 inaugural address, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Yet even before Pearl Harbor, Americans feared foreign invasions, air attacks, biological weapons, and, conversely, the prospect of a dictatorship being established in the United States. To protect Americans from foreign and domestic threats, Roosevelt warned Americans that "the world has grown so small" and eventually established the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199743126
• ISBN13: 9780199743124
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"