Freedom Betrayed
Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath
HISTORY
1080 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Hardcover, ebook: EPUB, Mobipocket, ebook: PDF
Hardcover, $64.95 (US $64.95) (CA $87.95)
Publication Date: November 2011
ISBN 9780817912345
Overview
In Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath, former president offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II, including his frank evaluation of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s foreign policies before and during the war. He also examines the war’s consequences, including the expansion of the Soviet empire and the eruption of the Cold War. Herbert Hoover launched this extraordinary literary project during the war, and it was finally published nearly fifty years after its completion.
On issue after issue, Hoover raises crucial questions that continue to be debated today: 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.
Reviews
“Finally, after waiting for close to half a century, we now have Hoover's massive and impassioned account of American foreign policy from 1933 to the early 1950s. Thanks to the efforts of George H. Nash, there exists an unparalleled picture of Hoover's world view, one long shared by many conservatives. Nash's thorough and perceptive introduction shows why he remains America's leading Hoover scholar.” —Justus D. Doenecke, author of Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941"A forcefully argued and well documented alternative to, and critique of, the conventional liberal historical narrative of America’s road to war and its war aims. Even readers comfortable with the established account will find themselves thinking that on some points the accepted history should be reconsidered and perhaps revised." —John Earl Haynes, author of Spies: the Rise and Fall of the KGB in America
"What an amazing historical find! Historian George H. Nash, the dean of Herbert Hoover studies, has brought forth a very rare manuscript in Freedom Betrayed. Here is Hoover unplugged, delineating on everything from the 'lost statesmanship' of FDR to the Korean War. A truly invaluable work of presidential history. Highly recommended." —Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University, editor of The Reagan Diaries
Author Biography
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) was president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. An internationally acclaimed humanitarian, he was the author of more than thirty books and founder of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
George H. Nash is a historian, lecturer, and authority on the life of Herbert Hoover. His publications include three volumes of a definitive, scholarly biography of Hoover and the monograph Herbert Hoover and Stanford University. Nash is also the author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America since 1945 and Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism. A graduate of Amherst College and holder of a PhD in History from Harvard University, he received the Richard M. Weaver Prize for Scholarly Letters in 2008. He lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
