Preface by William H. Regnery II Editor's Introduction by Bill Kauffman America First Creed Statement of Principles and Objectives: Preamble Introduction Why America First? Laying the Foundations America First Under Fire What the Polls Said Colonel Lindbergh and America First The Antiwar Bloc in the War Congress On the Record Closing the Books Appendix A: Who Were the America Firsters? Appendix B: An Interview with Robert Douglas Stuart Jr. Appendix C: Speakers and National Committee Members of America First
Written in 1942, but unpublished until now, this study of the America First Committee by its chief researcher and Senate lobbyist sheds new light on this frequently misunderstood and misrepresented group.
Ruth Sarles was chief researcher and Senate lobbyist for the America First Committee. A former editor with the pacifist National Council for Prevention of War, Sarles represents the often-unacknowledged liberal face of the anti-intervention movement of 1940-41. After marrying Bertram Benedict in 1943, Sarles worked as a Washington Daily News reporter and a State Department analyst. She died in 1996. Bill Kauffman is associate editor of The American Enterprise.
?[i]n a superb edition that students and historians of the period
will find invaluable.?-Chronicles
?[t]he work represents a mini-archive on the America First
Committee from the perspective of its members, which undergraduate
students should find useful for research. Graduate students and
specialists will want to consult the manuscript in its entirety
(housed in the Hoover Institution Archives), but should find
Kauffman's account of the manuscript's history of interest.
Recommended. For college and university libraries, all
levels.?-Choice
?[O]ffers valuable source material on the committee...?-49th
Parallel
?For years its true history has been buried beneath a mound of
interventionist propaganda, but now we have an inside account from
the woman who served as the AFC's congressional lliaison. A Story
of America First, by Ruth Sarles, with an invaluable introduction
by Bill Kauffman, recaptures a lost chapter in the history of
American Right, one that teaches conservatives important lessons
for today....The timely publication ofthis book underscores the
absurdity of the claim that the heirs of the Old Right, who oppose
the creation of an American empire in the Middle East. "aspire to
reinvent conservative ideology," as one recently put it. The
conservative heros of the America First generation, men and woment
such as Garrett, Flynn, and Sarles, are being rediscovered, and the
authentic traditions of the American Right are becoming too well
known to be denied.?-Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of
Antiwar.com and author of an enemy of the state: The Life of Murray
N. Rothbard.
"Ýi¨n a superb edition that students and historians of the period
will find invaluable."-Chronicles
"Ýt¨he work represents a mini-archive on the America First
Committee from the perspective of its members, which undergraduate
students should find useful for research. Graduate students and
specialists will want to consult the manuscript in its entirety
(housed in the Hoover Institution Archives), but should find
Kauffman's account of the manuscript's history of interest.
Recommended. For college and university libraries, all
levels."-Choice
"ÝO¨ffers valuable source material on the committee..."-49th
Parallel
"[i]n a superb edition that students and historians of the period
will find invaluable."-Chronicles
"[t]he work represents a mini-archive on the America First
Committee from the perspective of its members, which undergraduate
students should find useful for research. Graduate students and
specialists will want to consult the manuscript in its entirety
(housed in the Hoover Institution Archives), but should find
Kauffman's account of the manuscript's history of interest.
Recommended. For college and university libraries, all
levels."-Choice
"[O]ffers valuable source material on the committee..."-49th
Parallel
"For years its true history has been buried beneath a mound of
interventionist propaganda, but now we have an inside account from
the woman who served as the AFC's congressional lliaison. A Story
of America First, by Ruth Sarles, with an invaluable introduction
by Bill Kauffman, recaptures a lost chapter in the history of
American Right, one that teaches conservatives important lessons
for today....The timely publication ofthis book underscores the
absurdity of the claim that the heirs of the Old Right, who oppose
the creation of an American empire in the Middle East. "aspire to
reinvent conservative ideology," as one recently put it. The
conservative heros of the America First generation, men and woment
such as Garrett, Flynn, and Sarles, are being rediscovered, and the
authentic traditions of the American Right are becoming too well
known to be denied."-Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of
Antiwar.com and author of an enemy of the state: The Life of Murray
N. Rothbard.
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