Roosevelt's lost alliances : how personal politics helped start the Cold War / Frank Costigliola.

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D748 .C67 2012

Author/Creator:

Costigliola, Frank, 1946-

Language:

English

Imprint:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.

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Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A portrait of the allies as young men : Franklin, Winston, and Koba
From Missy to Molotov : the women and men who sustained the Big Three
The personal touch : forming the alliance, January-August 1941
Transcending differences : Eden goes to Moscow and Churchill to Washington, December 1941
Creating the "family circle" : the torturous path to Tehran, 1942-43
"I've worked it out" : Roosevelt's plan to win the peace and defy death, 1944-45
The diplomacy of trauma : Kennan and his colleagues in Moscow, 1933-46
Guns and kisses in the Kremlin : Ambassadors Harriman and Clark Kerr encounter Stalin, 1943-46
"Roosevelt's death has changed everything" : Truman's first days, April-June 1945
The lost alliance : widespread anxiety and deepening ideology, July 1945-March 1946.

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ISBN:

9780691121291
069112129X