Product Description: Between 1939-1941, from the time that Germany invaded Poland until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Americans engaged in a debate as intense as any in U.S. history. In Storm on the Horizon, prominent historian Justus D. Doenecke analyzes the personalities, leading action groups, and major congressional debates surrounding the decision to participate in World War II...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Suitable as a supplementary text for college history courses, this volume contains a narrative of the New Deal era along with 30 supporting documents from the period. Doenecke's account focuses on political history, beginning with the advent of the Great Depression in 1929 and ending with the congr...read more

Product Description: The struggle over Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy from 1939 to 1941 was one of the most bitter in American history. This anthology presents the arguments against cash-and-carry, conscription, lend-lease, extending the term of draftees, arming merchant ships, and economic sanctions on Japan...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the summer of 1940, after the fall of France to Hitler's advancing troops, opponents of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy organized their may divergent groups into the powerful and vocal America First Committee (AFC)...read more

Product Description: Many historians regard the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 as the opening shot of the Second World War. This careful examination of the American reaction to Japan's action is a study in decision making and public opinion. It analyzes the influence of public attitudes on the American attempt to respond to the crisis and concludes that despite stereotypes of an aloof and isolationist United States, serious efforts were made to thwart Japanese imperialism...read more

Product Description: A study of the reaction of the isolationists to the major crises of the Cold War, starting in 1943 when opposition to the policy of unconditional surrender began to develop, and continuing down to 1954, the beginning of U.S. involvement in Indochina...read more