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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Published 2014. Paperback, 433 pp.; 23 cm; first paperback edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers with a crease down the front cover, light bumping to edges and corners, and mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Signed by co-author Richard Breitman in black ink on the title page (not inscribed). Small pink mark to lower margin of page 15, otherwise pages unmarked. Historians Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman reassess Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to Nazi Germany's persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust, drawing on extensive primary sources to argue that FDR was neither savior nor bystander but a pragmatic politician balancing competing priorities under the pressures of depression and war. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Contents: Introduction: Four Roosevelts; The Rise and Fall of FDR; FDR Returns; The Democrat and the Dictator; Immigration Wars; Transitions; Moving Millions?; Resettlement in Latin America?; Toward War; Tightened Security; Wartime America; Debating Remedies; Zionism and the Arab World; The War Refugee Board; Negotiations and Rescue in Hungary; Endings; Perspectives.