Table of Contents

Preface Introduction United States Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period: A Historiographic Essay Wilson and Democratic Peacemaking: A Tragic Beginning to the Interwar Era Harding, Hughes, and Republican Moral Diplomacy Foreign Policy Under Coolidge and Kellogg: A Relative Bed of Roses Foreign Policy Under Hoover and Stimson: A Bed of Pain Early New Deal Foreign Policy: The Limits of Improvisation The Good Neighbor Policy: A Bipartisan Accomplishment Congressional Neutrality: Roosevelt, the British, and Bankers as Performing Circus Animals The Shifting of the Foreign Policy Momentum Aid to Britain Short of War Japan and the United States Miscalculate Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Presents an in-depth survey of the principal policies and personalities of American diplomacy of the era, together with a discussion of recent historiography in the field.

About the Author

BENJAMIN D. RHODES is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Rhodes is the author of The Anglo-American Winter War with Russia, 1918-1919: A Diplomatic and Military Tragicomedy (1988), and James P. Goodrich, Indiana's Governor Strangelove: A Republican's Infatuation with Soviet Russia (1996). Author of numerous articles, he has also been a Fulbright lecturer in Finland and the People's Republic of China.

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