After the United States entered World War II, Roosevelt quickly moved to shore up African American support and silence foreign propaganda about the treatment of the negro in America. He ordered ...

Indeed, he initially advocated a balanced budget, precisely the wrong remedy for a crisis which would ultimately be ended only by the governmental spending of World War II. What Roosevelt could offer ...

President Roosevelt did not tell Congress or the American people the truth behind the Greer incident that led to US involvement in World War II. "I am perfectly willing to mislead and tell ...

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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 642. Illus., maps, tables, notes, biblio., index. $34.95. ISBN: 0252039521. FDR, the Commander in Chief. Whereas ...