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The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II
By Wapshott, Nicholas
- ISBN
- 9780393088885 9780393245820
- Publisher
- Norton
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Reviewed on October 15, 2014 | Social Sciences
Wapshott (journalist; Keynes Hayek) focuses on the personality and policy clashes between pre-Pearl Harbor American internationalists and isolationists, exemplified by Franklin D. Roosevelt on one side and primarily Charles Lindbergh and Joseph P. Kennedy on the other. Roosevelt, notably sphinxlike in his dealings with the press on whether he would run for a third term and in his impression of being noninterventionist while preparing for an eventual war, deftly neutr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
