Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and its Aftermath
2013-02-10T08:31:29-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/9ed/20130210083216003_hd.jpgHistorian George Nash discussed Herbert Hoover’s manuscript, Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath, which was edited by both Mr. Nash and the Hoover Institution Press. The book is the culmination of a literary project launched by Hoover during WWII that evolved into a critique of U.S. foreign policy during the war and the early years of the Cold War. Hoover argues that FDR’s pre-war and wartime diplomacy had made the world safe for Stalinist Russia and triggered the Cold War.
Historian George Nash discussed Herbert Hoover’s manuscript, Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its… read more
Historian George Nash discussed Herbert Hoover’s manuscript, Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath, which was edited by both Mr. Nash and the Hoover Institution Press. The book is the culmination of a literary project launched by Hoover during WWII that evolved into a critique of U.S. foreign policy during the war and the early years of the Cold War. Hoover argues that FDR’s pre-war and wartime diplomacy had made the world safe for Stalinist Russia and triggered the Cold War. close
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