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FDR's Republicans

Domestic Political Realignment and American Foreign Policy

By: Robert E. Jenner

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FDR's Republicans

Domestic Political Realignment and American Foreign Policy

By: Robert E. Jenner

FDR's Republicans illuminates the debate over foreign policy that took place in the United States prior to World War II. Robert E. Jenner approaches this issue from the perspective of Republican members of the House and Senate, who eventually came to support the interventionist position of a Democratic president. Unlike other diplomatic histories of this period, FDR's Republicans focuses on domestic components of the foreign policy debate, combining historical analysis and political theory. Jenner recounts the Republican Party's internationalist roots under McKinley, the split of 1912, and the defeat of the League of Nations in deference to its agrarian progressive wing. Taking both a local and national approach, he provides in-depth analysis of the party's reaction to the FDR landslides of 1932 and 1936, the party's resurgence in 1938, FDR's aggressive defense of the New Deal, and the decline of the party's agrarian progressive faction. The result is a broader explanation of the battle that raged between isolationists and interventionists as well as the failure of policy makers to deter fascism at an earlier date.

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238

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0739136127

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9780739136126

The Prince of Darkness

50 Years Reporting in Washington

By: Robert D. Novak

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The Prince of Darkness

50 Years Reporting in Washington

By: Robert D. Novak

New York Times Bestseller A landmark achievement The Prince of Darkness is not simply the stunningly candid memoir of one of the country’s most influential reporters but also a riveting history of the past half century in American politics.

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690

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Forum Books

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1400052009

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9781400052004

No Wonder We Are Losing

By: Robert Morris

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No Wonder We Are Losing

By: Robert Morris

In this shocking book leading anti-communist Robert Morris reveals the revelations that he uncovered in his quest to rid American of socialism. “This book is not an autobiography. This book generally will be concerned with the response, as I saw it, of free men to the pressure of Communism, that twentieth century revolutionary movement which first captured power in Russia and has since extended that power to the Elbe River and the China Sea, that revolutionary movement whose ultimate aim is world dominion. I shall be concerned not only with Communism’s territorial expansion but also with its efforts—sometimes overt, sometimes covert, but unceasing—to undermine the foundations of moral and political authority in every land that has not yet fallen under its domination.” (Robert Morris)

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399

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787208648

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9781787208643

The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1949-1953

By: Robert Alphonso Taft,Clarence E. Wunderlin

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The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1949-1953

By: Robert Alphonso Taft,Clarence E. Wunderlin

The final volume of the Taft papers This fourth and final volume of a selected edition of the papers of Robert A. Taft documents Taft's post-World War II and congressional experiences until his death in 1953. Regardless of his conservative commitments, Taft saw the need for responsible reform. In the immediate postwar years, he recognized the need for federal aid to education, for social welfare legislation that assisted the poor, and for federal support for public housing. Out of political necessity, Taft became more partisan as the 1950 senatorial campaign approached, convinced he had to win reelection in Ohio by a large margin if he was to establish himself as a frontrunner in the primary campaign for the 1952 presidential election. Moderate Republicans spurned Taft and doubted that the serious, partisan senator could successfully head a national ticket. His support, nevertheless, was essential to the 1952 Eisenhower presidential campaign. Taft's service as Senate majority leader proved indispensable to President Eisenhower during the early months of his first term, helping the president navigate the byways of the nation's capital. Even after his diagnosis of cancer in April 1953, he continued to work at his senatorial duties until he died in July 1953. This volume completes the contribution that The Papers of Robert A. Taft provides to the study of United States political and diplomatic history, Ohio history, and conservative political theory.

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560

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Kent State University Press

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0873388518

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9780873388511

Tumultuous Years

The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949-1953

By: Robert J. Donovan

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Tumultuous Years

The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949-1953

By: Robert J. Donovan

In January of 1949 the aftershocks of the Second World War were still jarring large parts of the globe, although they had greatly diminished in the United States. In Asia, however, turbulence continued to rise as a result of the collapse of Japan, the tottering of the European empires after the war, and the combustion produced by nationalism mixed with communism. Because a segment of American opinion, generally represented in the more conservative wing of the Republican party, was very sensitive to events in Asia, the tremors in the Far East came as harbingers of disturbing political conflict in the United States." Robert J. Donovan's Tumultuous Years presents a detailed account of Harry S. Truman's presidency from 1949-1953.

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452

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University of Missouri Press

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0826210856

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9780826210852

Deadly Farce

Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy Era

By: Robert M. Lichtman,Ronald D. Cohen

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Deadly Farce

Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy Era

By: Robert M. Lichtman,Ronald D. Cohen

The book traces the rise and fall of Harvey Matusow, a wise-guy, professional informer-witness of the McCarthy era, whose dramatic recantation led to his own imprisonment but hastened the end of the era. No issue so possessed the nation in the first half of the 1950s as alleged Communist subversion in the United States. Communist Party member, an undercover FBI informer inside the Party, and then a leading witness for the government during the McCarthy era--until he recanted his testimony. His story illuminates a disturbing time in American history, one with renewed relevance today. Matusow was easily the most flamboyant of the professional ex-Communists, a celebrity informer who considered himself booked by Congressional committees not just to testify, but to entertain. He testified that Communists fostered loose sex, taught politicized Mother Goose rhymes to small children, and tried to infiltrate the Boy Scouts. He also named more than 200 people as Communists and was a prosecution witness in major criminal cases. transcripts, personal interviews, private papers, and other primary sources, most never before utilized, to describe the unusual role of ex-Communist informer-witnesses during the McCarthy era. The Justice Department kept several dozen political informers on the government's payroll to testify in hundreds of deportation, sedition, and contempt of Congress cases. Some informers achieved celebrity as the result of high-profile appearances at criminal trials and before Congressional committees. But as the era continued, instances of perjury began to appear. Harvey Matusow's sensational recantation in 1955 gave him his biggest audience yet. It led to the dissolution of the Justice Department's informer stable and ended the public's infatuation with the group. Matusow's unrepentant and at times vaudevillian appearances before the Senate red-hunting committee investigating his recantation, followed by his prosecution for perjury--for the recantation, not his original testimony--and prison sentence, mark the climax of Deadly Farce . McCarran, and Elizabeth Bentley, among many others, offers an inside, entertaining, and closely documented view of a largely untold part of McCarthy-era history. The columnist Murray Kempton described Matusow as a truly remarkable witness in the opera bouffe sense demanded by inquisitions of the 1950s.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252028864

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9780252028861

Book's by Robert E. Jenner

FDR's Republicans

FDR's Republicans

The Prince of Darkness

The Prince of Darkness

No Wonder We Are Losing

No Wonder We Are Losing

The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1949-1953

The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1949-1953

Tumultuous Years

Tumultuous Years

Deadly Farce

Deadly Farce

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