The New Dealers' War

FDR and the War Within World War II

By: Thomas Fleming

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Paperback | 6 June 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming brings to life the flawed and troubled FDR who struggled to manage WWII. Starting with the leak to the press of Roosevelt''s famous Rainbow Plan, then spiraling back to FDR''s inept prewar diplomacy with Japan, and his various attempts to lure Japan into an attack on the U.S. Fleet in the Pacific, Fleming takes the reader inside the incredibly fractious struggles and debates that went on in Washington, the nation, and the world as the New Dealers, led by FDR, strove to impose their will on the conduct of the War. Unlike the familiar yet idealized FDR of Doris Kearns Goodwin''s No Ordinary Time, the reader encounters a Roosevelt in remorseless decline, battered by ideological forces and primitive hatreds which he could not handle-and frequently failed to understand-some of them leading to unimaginable catastrophe. Among FDR''s most dismaying policies, Fleming argues, were an insistence on "unconditional surrender" for Germany (a policy that perhaps prolonged the war by as many as two years, leaving millions more dead) and his often uncritical embrace of and acquiescence to Stalin and the Soviets as an ally. For many Americans, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a beloved, heroic, almost mythic figure, if not for the "big government" that was spawned under his New Deal, then certainly for his leadership through the War. The New Dealers'' War paints a very different portrait of this leadership. It is sure to spark debate.

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"A revisionist blockbuster by a real historian who has an old-fashioned concern with what actually happened in the past, with causes and effects."
"It would be a gross understatement to call The New Dealers' War a revisionist history of World War II. Thomas Fleming has...entered the Roosevelt Wing of the American Pantheon with a sledgehammer and reduced it to shambles."
"Sure to be the most controversial history book of the year.... A scathing commentary that will have partisans howling in protest."
Praise for The New Dealers' War: "A gripping, controversial, informative, and at times infuriating look at FDR's leadership as the nation entered and fought World War II."

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas General & World History Politics & Government Central Government Sociology & Anthropology Political Structure & Processes Political Leaders & Leadership Military History Second World War

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The Big Leak	p. 1
The Big Leaker	p. 25
From Triumph to Trauma	p. 49
The Great Dichotomy	p. 92
Whose War Is It Anyway?	p. 115
Some Neglected Chickens Come Home to Roost	p. 135
In Search of Unconditional Purity	p. 165
War War Leads to Jaw Jaw	p. 189
Fall of a Prophet	p. 214
What'd You Get, Black Boy?	p. 231
Let My Cry Come Unto Thee	p. 255
Red Star Rising	p. 281
Shaking Hands with Murder	p. 305
Goddamning Roosevelt and Other Pastimes	p. 337
Democracy's Total War	p. 366
Operation Stop Henry	p. 390
Death and Transfiguration in Berlin	p. 420
The Dying Champion	p. 441
Lost Last Stands	p. 473
A New President and an Old Policy	p. 514
Ashes of Victory	p. 548
Notes	p. 563
Index	p. 599
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