Against Immediate Evil: American Internationalists and the Four Freedoms on the Eve of World War II

Andrew E. Johnstone

Published by Cornell University Press 2015

Against Immediate Evil

American Internationalists and the Four Freedoms on the Eve of World War II

Andrew E. Johnstone

https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801454738

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About this book

Andrew Johnstone tells the story of how internationalist Americans worked between 1938 and 1941 to convince the U.S. government and the American public of the need to stem the rising global tide of fascist aggression.

Author / Editor information

Andrew Johnstone is Lecturer in American History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Dilemmas of Internationalism and coeditor of The US Public and American Foreign Policy.

Reviews

David Ekbladh, Tufts University, author of The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order:

There is a tendency to give FDR much of the credit for easing U.S. public opinion toward war. In this first-rate book, Andrew Johnstone complicates that view, injecting new perspectives and actors into a well-known story. The author reveals how the long, difficult, and passionate debate over intervention in World War II was shaped by a selection of activists. At crucial points, it was not the president but these influential figures and their organizations that had decisive impact on which direction the government and the country moved.

Grant Harward:

Against Immediate Evil is an important contribution to the historiography of the formation of the foundations of American foreign policy as the United States asserted its role in the mid-twentieth century as not just a great power, but as an emerging global superpower.... Andrew Johnstone's book is a concise and readable chronological narrative of the development of the American internationalist before the entrance of the United States in the Second World War.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Four Freedoms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Sino-Japanese War and the American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. The Coming of War and the American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
3. The Phony War and the Non-Partisan Committee for Peace through Revision of the Neutrality Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
4. Blitzkrieg and the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
5. The Destroyer-Bases Agreement and the Century Group Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
6. Maximum Aid and the Battle for Lend-Lease Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
7. Deliver the Goods and Fight for Freedom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
8. The Battle of the Atlantic from Barbarossa to Pearl Harbor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Epilogue: War and Beyond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: United States; internationalist Americans; internationalist movement; fascist aggression; World War II; noninterventionism; international power; global conflict; national security; foreign policy; world affairs

eBook

Published: August 18, 2015
ISBN: 9780801454738