Those Angry Days : Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 (Paperback)

from richjj

In all the rancor of the pre-war politics, I felt like Olson was trying to give the reader a fair telling of the positives and negatives of the pro-war and anti-war factions. Roosevelt was shown as a flawed human, preoccupied with not getting ahead of popular opinion, at times suspicious or vindi...

from Shrike58

I found this to be a good narrative history of how the general populace of the United States tried to decide what it thought about intervening in World War II, until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor upset all preconceptions held by Interventionists and Isolationists alike. The greatest strengt...

from gbelik

This history of America in the years 1939-1941 uses the two outsized personalities of Roosevelt and Lindbergh as exemplars of the isolationism and internationalism in those years. While the story ranged far afield of just those two individuals, it returned to them often to personalize and focus t...

from jimmoz

This covers from 39-41, and the contentious issue of whether and how much the US should support Britain against Germany. FDR and interventionist groups are on one side, while Charles Lindbergh and isolationists are on the other. A sad picture of Lindbergh emerges, as he had been pursued by report...

from antiquary

I have only begun reading this, but I find it is a well-researched and rather coolly objective account of the struggle between isolationists and internationalists in the last years before the US entered World War II, focusing on the ;personal duel between Charles Lindbergh and Franklin Roosevelt....