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020			_a9781139381567 (ebook)
020			_z9781107031265 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aE806 _b.M424 2013
082	0	0	_a973.917 _223
100	1		_aMayers, David, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis : _bFrom the Rise of Hitler to the End of World War II / _cDavid Mayers.
246	3		_aFDR's Ambassadors & the Diplomacy of Crisis
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (384 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aWhat 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.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107031265
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139381567
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38392 _d38392