Freedom betrayed : Herbert Hoover's secret history of the Second World War and its aftermath / edited with an introduction by George H. Nash
- Author:
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
- Published:
- Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2011]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2011
- Physical Description:
- cxx, 957 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Nash, George H., 1945-
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: VOLUME I -- Introduction -- SECTION I A Great Intellectual and Moral Plague Comes to Free Men -- ch. 1 The Creators, Leaders, Principles, and Methods of Communism -- ch. 2 The Recognition of Soviet Russia in November 1933 -- ch. 3 The Kremlin Onslaught against the American People -- ch. 4 Infiltration of Members of the Communist Party into the Federal Government -- ch. 5 The Communist Fronts -- SECTION II I Make an Appraisal of the Forces Moving among Nations in 1938 -- Introduction -- ch. 6 Belgium and France -- ch. 7 Germany and Italy -- ch. 8 Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland -- ch. 9 Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden -- ch. 10 Russia -- ch. 11 China in 1938 -- ch. 12 Japan -- ch. 13 The Decline and Fall of the League of Nations -- ch. 14 Great Britain -- ch. 15 My Report to the American People on the Forces in Motion in Europe -- SECTION III A Revolution in American Foreign Policies -- ch. 16 President Roosevelt Abandons Isolationism and Enters Foreign Politics -- ch. 17 Actions Stronger Than Words -- SECTION IV 1939: In Europe, a Year of Monstrous Evils for Mankind -- ch. 18 The Rape of Czechoslovakia -- ch. 19 Hitler Moves on Poland -- ch. 20 Shall We Send Our Youth to War? -- ch. 21 The Allies and Hitler Each Bid for an Alliance with Stalin -- ch. 22 A Tragedy to All Mankind without End -- SECTION V The Communist-Nazi Conquest of Europe -- ch. 23 Communist and Nazi Conquest of Poland and the Baltic States -- ch. 24 The Surrender of Western Europe -- ch. 25 A Great Trial for but No Defeat of Britain -- SECTION VI More American Action---Stronger Than Words---but Less Than War -- ch. 26 Revision of the Neutrality Laws -- ch. 27 Military Preparedness -- ch. 28 More Than Words in the Balkans -- SECTION VII Brainwashing the American People -- ch. 29 "Hitler's Coming!" -- SECTION VIII The Revolution in American Foreign Policies Continued -- ch. 30 The Presidential Election of 1940 -- ch. 31 The Lend-Lease Law [and] the ABC-1 Agreement -- ch. 32 There Were to Be No Convoys -- SECTION IX The Opportunity to Make Lasting Peace Comes to Franklin Roosevelt -- ch. 33 Hitler Turns His Might against Communist Russia -- ch. 34 My Appeal That the United States Stay on the Sidelines until the Great Dictators Exhaust Each Other -- ch. 35 The Reactions in the Western World -- SECTION X The Road to War -- ch. 36 Via Germany -- ch. 37 Via Germany (continued) -- ch. 38 Via Japan---the Total Economic Sanctions on Japan and Japanese Proposals of Peace -- ch. 39 Via Japan---Yet Again Comes a Chance for Peace in the Pacific -- ch. 40 Via Japan---the Ultimatum -- ch. 41 Via Japan---Pearl Harbor -- ch. 42 Via Japan---Finding Someone to Blame -- VOLUME II -- SECTION XI The March of Conferences -- Introduction -- ch. 43 The First Washington Conference: December 22, 1941, to January 14, 1942 -- ch. 44 The Second Washington Conference: June 18 to June 25, 1942 -- ch. 45 The Development of TORCH (the North African Campaign) -- ch. 46 The Casablanca Conference: January 14 to January 24, 1943 -- SECTION XII The March of Conferences -- ch. 47 The Third Washington Conference: May 12 to May 25, 1943 -- ch. 48 The First Quebec Conference: August 11 to August 24, 1943 -- ch. 49 The First Moscow Conference: October 19 to October 30, 1943 -- ch. 50 The Supplementary Purposes of Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kai-shek -- SECTION XIII The March of Conferences---The Tehran-Cairo Conferences November-December 1943 -- ch. 51 The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran: November 22 to December 7, 1943 -- ch. 52 The First Cairo Conference: November 22 to November 26, 1943 -- ch. 53 The Tehran Conference: November 27 to December 1, 1943 -- ch. 54 Other Conclusions at Tehran -- ch. 55 The Second Cairo Conference: December 2 to December 7, 1943 -- ch. 56 The Two Great Commitments at Tehran Which Destroyed Freedom in Fifteen Nations -- ch. 57 President Roosevelt's Statements as to the Decisions at Cairo and Tehran -- ch. 58 Stalin by Action Proves the Two Secret Undertakings -- ch. 59 Secretary Cordell Hull's Bewilderment -- SECTION XIV The March of Conferences -- ch. 60 The Second Quebec Conference: September 11 to September 16, 1944 -- ch. 61 The Second Moscow Conference: October 9 to October 20, 1944 -- ch. 62 Getting Along with Stalin -- SECTION XV The March of Conferences---The Yalta Conference: February 4-11, 1945 -- ch. 63 The Conference at Malta---Prelude to Yalta: From January 30 to February 2, 1945 -- ch. 64 Organization, the Military Situation, Sources of Information -- ch. 65 The Declarations on Liberated Europe and Poland -- ch. 66 Declarations and Agreements as to Germany -- ch. 67 Sundry Agreements -- ch. 68 The Secret Far Eastern Agreement -- ch. 69 Were These Sacrifices Necessary? -- ch. 70 The Claim That Mr. Roosevelt Signed the Far Eastern Agreement Because of Military Pressures -- ch. 71 Acclaim of the Yalta Agreements -- SECTION XVI The Rise, Decline and Fall of the Atlantic Charter -- ch. 72 The Rise -- ch. 73 The Step-by-Step Retreat from the Charter -- SECTION XVII The First Days of the Truman Administration -- ch. 74 The United States Has a New President -- ch. 75 Keeping the Secret Far Eastern Agreement a Secret -- ch. 76 I Am Asked for Advice by President Truman -- ch. 77 The Preservation of Lasting Peace -- ch. 78 The Conference to Draw a Charter for the Preservation of Lasting Peace -- SECTION XVIII The March of Conferences---The Potsdam Conference and After -- ch. 79 The Awakening of Prime Minister Churchill to the Betrayal of Freedom -- ch. 80 Organization of the Potsdam Conference -- ch. 81 Potsdam Action as to Germany and Poland -- ch. 82 Action as to Japan -- ch. 83 Aftermath of Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan -- ch. 84 An Era of Vacillation in Relations with the Communists -- ch. 85 I Make an Appraisal of Communist Progress as of 1946 -- v. III Case Histories -- SECTION I A Step-by-Step History of Poland -- SECTION II The Decline and Fall of Free China---A Case History -- SECTION III The Case History of Korea -- SECTION IV Vengeance Comes to Germany.
- Summary:
- The culmination of an extraordinary literary project that Herbert Hoover launched during World War II, his "magnum opus"--at last published nearly fifty years after its completion--offers a revisionist reexamination of the war and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the "lost statesmanship" of Franklin Roosevelt. Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath originated as a volume of Hoover's memoirs, a book initially focused on his battle against President Roosevelt's foreign policies before Pearl Harbor. As time went on, however, Hoover widened his scope to include Roosevelt's foreign policies during the war, as well as the war's consequences: the expansion of the Soviet empire at war's end and the eruption of the cold war against the Communists. On issue after issue, Hoover raises crucial questions that continue to be debated to this day. Did Franklin Roosevelt deceitfully maneuver the United States into an undeclared and unconstitutional naval war with Germany in 1941? Did he unnecessarily appease Joseph Stalin at the pivotal Tehran conference in 1943? Did communist agents and sympathizers in the White House, Department of State, and Department of the Treasury play a malign role in some of America's wartime decisions? Hoover raises numerous arguments that challenge us to think again about our past. Whether or not one ultimately accepts his arguments, the exercise of confronting them will be worthwhile to all.
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- ISBN:
- 9780817912345 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817912347 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817912369 (e-book)
0817912363 (e-book) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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