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The Revolution of 1940: America’s Fight Over Entering World War II
AP
Books
Not since the Civil War had Americans voted in such a high-stakes presidential election as the unprecedented 1940 race. Two new books and several others recently published relive that tumultuous period before Pearl Harbor—a time much like our own.
Marc Wortman
06.23.13 6:45 PM ET
We may pledge allegiance to “one nation under God,” but from the start American society has been anything but “indivisible.” The America Revolution split families and pitted neighbor against neighbor before it launched a nation; the Civil War that nearly broke it asunder was, well, a civil war. And let’s not talk about slavery and the brutal subjugation of Native Americans. Between the open battles, we mostly just shouted at each other across political lines like now. Yet the great national commitment to victory in World War II stands out as a singular shining moment of cohesion and unity. The afterglow of that massive war effort and the Allies’ great victory hides a darker reality of the political storm that swept the nation right up to the very day of the Pearl Harbor attack.
The fight between isolationists and interventionists over America’s future role in the world, a fight that turned into a political and sometimes real brawl for the presidency in the 1940 election, proved lower and even more vicious than what passes for political discourse today. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1940 election to an unprecedented third term—breaking a 150-year national taboo—marked a true revolution in American determination to take on global responsibility in a world at war and, often to our regret, ever after.
Overshadowed by the Second World War and the prior Great Depression, relatively few books have been written about the prewar period,...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/23/the-revolution-of-1940-america-s-fight-over-entering-world-war-two.html
.. from yours ..
"In the 1930s, when Hitler and Benito Mussolini rose to power, it was the Republican Party who pushed for appeasement. While Franklin
Roosevelt and his fellow internationalists in the Democratic Party sounded the first alarms about fascism, conservative Republican leaders
like Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenburg maintained their isolationism right up until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941."
[...]
"And so the circle stays unbroken, aided by an ahistorical nation that is constantly getting fooled by its leaders.
That's why conservatives accused the Democrats of treason during the McCarthy era. That's why conservatives still blame the Democrats
for "losing" the Vietnam War - even though 21,000 American deaths came during the Nixon administration. And that's why the Bush
administration is attacking the people who honestly believe that what is happening in Iraq is an unmitigated disaster for our nation."
The post of 2006 "A CASE OF HISTORY ABUSE: BUSH, RUMSFELD AND FASCISM " which this post replies to sits in reply to the Richard Neville of Oz link ..
fuagf, and all -- and again, of course -- (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=13088854 and preceding and followin
.. repeated here yesterday .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=127058692
AP
Books
Not since the Civil War had Americans voted in such a high-stakes presidential election as the unprecedented 1940 race. Two new books and several others recently published relive that tumultuous period before Pearl Harbor—a time much like our own.
Marc Wortman
06.23.13 6:45 PM ET
We may pledge allegiance to “one nation under God,” but from the start American society has been anything but “indivisible.” The America Revolution split families and pitted neighbor against neighbor before it launched a nation; the Civil War that nearly broke it asunder was, well, a civil war. And let’s not talk about slavery and the brutal subjugation of Native Americans. Between the open battles, we mostly just shouted at each other across political lines like now. Yet the great national commitment to victory in World War II stands out as a singular shining moment of cohesion and unity. The afterglow of that massive war effort and the Allies’ great victory hides a darker reality of the political storm that swept the nation right up to the very day of the Pearl Harbor attack.
The fight between isolationists and interventionists over America’s future role in the world, a fight that turned into a political and sometimes real brawl for the presidency in the 1940 election, proved lower and even more vicious than what passes for political discourse today. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1940 election to an unprecedented third term—breaking a 150-year national taboo—marked a true revolution in American determination to take on global responsibility in a world at war and, often to our regret, ever after.
Overshadowed by the Second World War and the prior Great Depression, relatively few books have been written about the prewar period,...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/23/the-revolution-of-1940-america-s-fight-over-entering-world-war-two.html
.. from yours ..
"In the 1930s, when Hitler and Benito Mussolini rose to power, it was the Republican Party who pushed for appeasement. While Franklin
Roosevelt and his fellow internationalists in the Democratic Party sounded the first alarms about fascism, conservative Republican leaders
like Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenburg maintained their isolationism right up until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941."
[...]
"And so the circle stays unbroken, aided by an ahistorical nation that is constantly getting fooled by its leaders.
That's why conservatives accused the Democrats of treason during the McCarthy era. That's why conservatives still blame the Democrats
for "losing" the Vietnam War - even though 21,000 American deaths came during the Nixon administration. And that's why the Bush
administration is attacking the people who honestly believe that what is happening in Iraq is an unmitigated disaster for our nation."
The post of 2006 "A CASE OF HISTORY ABUSE: BUSH, RUMSFELD AND FASCISM " which this post replies to sits in reply to the Richard Neville of Oz link ..
fuagf, and all -- and again, of course -- (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=13088854 and preceding and followin
.. repeated here yesterday .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=127058692
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