In The Time Of The Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur-The Generation That Changed America 's Role in the WorldComing of age during World War I and attaining their finest hour in World War II and the Cold War, these men -- FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur -- transformed America from an isolated frontier nation into a global superpower. As he tells their stories, Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace, shows how this generation not only made America great but largely succeeded in making it a force for good. |
Contents
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The Energies of TR 3 I | 31 |
American Lives | 40 |
Franklin Roosevelt Comes to Town | 73 |
The Outbreak of the Great War 8 I | 87 |
I Was Going to Stop the War | 93 |
First Lessons | 363 |
Going on the Biggest Spree in History | 368 |
The Age of the Dictators | 379 |
Rumors of Wars | 393 |
The Emergence of FDR | 402 |
A Foreign Policy at Minimum Cost | 412 |
Unpreparedness as a National Policy | 426 |
Curbing the Presidents Powers | 439 |
America Quarrels with Both Sides | 99 |
America PreparesBut for What? | 111 |
CHAPTER IO Berlin Decides | 125 |
America Finds a Foreign Policy | 142 |
A CALL IN G H i G H E R THAN SOLDIER IN | 161 |
Focusing on the Peace | 170 |
A War of Our Own | 181 |
The AEF Is Too Late | 188 |
The Battle of Ideas | 193 |
Wilson Versus Lenin | 206 |
How to Fight the War | 215 |
The AEF Makes Its Move | 224 |
An Army of Tourists | 229 |
I Disillusion Before Versailles | 241 |
A Stab in the Back | 250 |
The George Washington Goes to Europe | 267 |
Deciding the Fate of the World | 279 |
Paris in the Plague Year | 283 |
A Whos Who of Americans in Paris | 287 |
A Clash by Night | 294 |
War or Peace with Communism? | 306 |
Wilson Collapses | 316 |
Blood Money | 326 |
Closing Up Shop at the Peace Talks | 329 |
The Idols Fall | 347 |
The United States Signs Its Separate Peace | 358 |
Staying Out of It | 448 |
The March Toward War | 461 |
The Bell Tolls | 474 |
Replay | 487 |
FDRs New World Strategy | 502 |
FDRs New Team and New Term | 517 |
Making Churchill a Partner | 531 |
A Second Summons to Greatness | 550 |
CHAPTER 5o The Magnificent Country 57 1 | 571 |
America Against the Allies | 580 |
The Origins of the Cold War | 594 |
Wilsons Way | 601 |
Handing Over Command | 610 |
One WorldOr Two? | 622 |
TRs Way | 636 |
Breaking with the PastAnd Paying the Price for It | 648 |
Forging a Consensus | 665 |
Americas Triumph | 672 |
Tales of the American Age | 687 |
Postscript | 705 |
Notes | 707 |
Bibliography | 743 |
Acknowledgments | 757 |
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