Robert Shogan

Prelude to Catastrophe: Fdr's Jews and the Menace of Nazism

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The Jews who so deeply admired Roosevelt made up the richest, most influential Jewish community in the world, leaders in government, commerce, and the arts. Yet by the time Franklin Roosevelt died in office, six million European Jews had been murdered by the Nazis while neither FDR nor American Jews lifted much more than a finger to help them. How did the president, the nation he led, and American Jewry allow this to happen? There is no simple answer, but Robert Shogan seeks a partial explanation by examining the behavior of a handful of Jews, so close to Roosevelt and supposedly so influential that they could be considered the president's Je… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-56663-831-9
EAN: 9781566638319
Produktnummer: 6795093
Verlag: Ivan R Dee Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 312 S.
Masse: H23.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.8 cm 567 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 567

Über den Autor

Robert Shogan, a former prizewinning national political correspondent for Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times, has also written No Sense of Decency; Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal; Bad News: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the President; and several other highly praised books in American history. He now teaches in the Washington Center of Johns Hopkins University and lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.