The Sailor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of American Foreign Policy

by Robert Allen Skotheim and David F. Schmitz

In The Sailor, David F. Schmitz presents a comprehensive reassessment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's foreign policymaking. Most historians have cast FDR as a leader who resisted an established international strategy and who was forced to react quickly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, launching the nation into World War II. Drawing on a wealth of primary documents as well as the latest secondary sources, Schmitz challenges this view, demonstrating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813180449
• ISBN13: 9780813180441
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary