In the time of the Americans

FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur--the generation that changed America's role in the world

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July 17, 2024 | History

In the time of the Americans

FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur--the generation that changed America's role in the world

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In the Time of the Americans traces the lives and thoughts of an impressive group of American leaders who, over the course of less than a century, moved the United States from its position as a resolutely isolated nation, wary of "foreign entanglements," to preeminence in international affairs.

David Fromkin, author of the best-selling A Peace to End All Peace, shows how this improbable fraternity - disparate in background, politics, and personality - shaped and educated Americans to realize that they had something unique to contribute to the world.

The men in question ranged from East Coast patrician Franklin Roosevelt to middle western storekeeper Harry Truman to career soldiers Dwight Eisenhower, George Marshall, and Douglas MacArthur. Members of a generation exhorted by Theodore Roosevelt to make its mark on the world, and inspired by Woodrow Wilson to remake the world in the service of an ideal, FDR and his contemporaries strove to carve out for America its proper - its best possible - place in the international arena.

Agreeing that history had ordained an exceptional mission for the United States, they were beset by doubts as to what that mission should be. Their careers were launched on the battlefields and in the diplomatic adventures of the First World War and its aftermath; but it was in the 1940s and 1950s that they finally took in hand the destinies of mankind, embarking on a visionary - indeed, radical - program of anti-imperialistic, often altruistic, intervention outside the Western Hemisphere.

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Pages
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-599) and index.

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New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
327.73
Library of Congress
E744 .F865 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 618 p. ;
Number of pages
618

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Open Library
OL1104989M
Internet Archive
intimeofamerican0000from_y6n0
ISBN 10
0394589017
LCCN
94030100
OCLC/WorldCat
30893412
Library Thing
333537
Goodreads
1438333

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