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  title info:
    title: FDR's ambassadors and the diplomacy of crisis
    sub title: from the rise of Hitler to the end of World War II
  name:
    name part: Mayers, David Allan
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Cambridge University Press
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: xiv, 372 p. : ill.
  abstract: "What effect did personality and circumstance have on US foreign policy during World War II? This incisive account of US envoys residing in the major belligerent countries - Japan, Germany, Italy, China, France, Great Britain, USSR - highlights the fascinating role played by such diplomats as Joseph Grew, William Dodd, William Bullitt, Joseph Kennedy and W. Averell Harriman. Between Hitler's 1933 ascent to power and the 1945 bombing of Nagasaki, US ambassadors sculpted formal policy - occasionally deliberately, other times inadvertently - giving shape and meaning not always intended by Franklin D. Roosevelt or predicted by his principal advisors. From appeasement to the Holocaust and the onset of the Cold War, David Mayers examines the complicated interaction between policy, as conceived in Washington, and implementation on the ground in Europe and Asia. By so doing, he also sheds needed light on the fragility, ambiguities and enduring urgency of diplomacy and its crucial function in international politics"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Axis: 1. Rising sun; 2. Third Reich; 3. New Roman Empire; Part II. Victims: 4. Middle Kingdom; 5. France Agonistes; Part III. Victors: 6. Britannia; 7. Great Patriotic War; 8. Conclusions: US diplomacy and war; Bibliography.
  note: David Mayers.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)
      name part: 1882-1945
  subject:
    topic: Ambassadors
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Diplomatic history
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1933-1945
  classification: E806 .M424 2013eb
  classification: 973.917
  identifier: 9781107031265 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781139845335 (e-book)
  identifier: 2012024352
  identifier: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc
  record info:
    record content source: CaPaEBR
    record creation date: 120718
    record identifier: ebr10621679