Roosevelt From Munich to Pearl Harbor.
Inscribed to ER
[Roosevelt, Eleanor]. Rauch, Basil. Roosevelt From Munich to Pearl Harbor. A Study in the Creation of a Foreign Policy. New York: Creative Age Press, 1950.
8vo.; light blue cloth, stamped in gilt; red dust-jacket; spine rubbed; light edgewear.
First edition. A presentation copy inscribed, For Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt with happy remembrances of our meeting at the United Nations—Basil Rauch January, 1953. Rauch, an Associate Professor of History at Barnard College, wrote this study of Roosevelt’s foreign policy in response to the scathing, revisionist histories of isolationist writers such as Charles Beard and Waverly Root. Beard accused FDR of lying to the American people, claiming he wanted to maintain US neutrality while all the time scheming to provoke declarations of war from Germany and Japan. “Professor Rauch,” the jacket copy states, “examines both the isolationist and leftist theses in all their ramifications and demolishes them with behind-the-scenes evidence which has been made available since the war, as well as with a wealth of documentation by such men as Churchill, Hull, Hopkins and others. Arthur Schelsinger Jr. called the book an ‘entirely devastating … exposure of the omissions and distortions of the Charles A. Beard school of historical revisionism.’”
Provenance: The Roosevelt Era, New York: Christie’s, lot 67.
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