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What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America s rise to global power, and the 1936 39 Spanish Civil War, which inspired passion and sacrifice, and shaped the road to world war? While many historians have portrayed the Spanish Civil War as one of Roosevelt s most isolationist episodes, Dominic Tierney argues that it marked the president s first attempt to challenge fascist aggression in Europe. Drawing on newly discovered archival documents, Tierney describes the evolution of Roosevelt s thinking about the Spanish Civil War in relation to America s...

What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America s rise to global power, and the 1936 39 Spanish Civil War, which inspired passion and sacrifice, and shaped the road to world war? While many historians have portrayed the Spanish Civil War as one of Roosevelt s most isolationist episodes, Dominic Tierney argues that it marked the president s first attempt to challenge fascist aggression in Europe. Drawing on newly discovered archival documents, Tierney describes the evolution of Roosevelt s thinking about the Spanish Civil War in relation to America s...

Tierney, the author of "Failing to Win," takes readers on a lively tour through history and and the present day to to show how Americans respond to and think about war.