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Article: From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War.
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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By David Reynolds. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. 209 pp.
In this fine scholarly synthesis, David Reynolds revisits the subject of his first book, The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance, 1937-1941 (1981), following twenty years of prolific scholarship on World War II and the cold war. From Munich to Pearl Harbor, like its predecessor, succinctly narrates the "twisting road" that led the United States from halting to full engagement in the European war (p. 3). The author traces Roosevelt's successful efforts of 1938-39 to revise the Neutrality Acts amidst the Munich Crisis, the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and the Sino-Japanese War. Reynolds relays as well FDR's precarious ...