In the Time of the Americans
by David Fromkin
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A group of men who led America away from isolationism to preeminence in international affairs.Tags
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2840 In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur--The Generation That Changed America's Role in the World, by David Fromkin (read 18 Feb 1996) This is a fantastically good book, and examines in detail the years from 1900 to 1941, and then in broad canvass the years since. It has as its thesis that the men born in the 1880's--FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur, and others--lived through tremendous changes and America triumphed by reason of their decisions. It is full of interesting tidbits, but its last summary chapters are a delight. How pleasant it is to have a book written about the 1940's and since which knows that the Soviet system would fail. The book is based mostly on secondary sources, show more but the analysis is very interesting. show less
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David Henry Fromkin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 27, 1932. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. He worked as a lawyer and investor until becoming a published author in his 40s and a professor in his 60s. He wrote seven books including The Question show more of Government: An Inquiry into the Breakdown of Modern Political Systems; A Peace to End All Peace; In the Time of the Americans: F.D.R., Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur - the Generation that Changed America's Role in the World; Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans; Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?; and The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners. He was a professor at Boston University from 1994 until 2013. He died from heart failure on June 11, 2017 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Douglas MacArthur; George C. Marshall; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Harry S. Truman
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 327.73 — Society, Government, and Culture Political science International Relations: Spies North America United States
- LCC
- E744 .F865 — History of the United States United States Twentieth century General Diplomatic history. Foreign and general
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