Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War Against Nazi Germany

America's struggle against Nazism is one of the few aspects of World War II that has escaped controversy. Historians agree that it was a widely popular war, different from the subsequent conflicts in Korea and Vietnam because of the absence of partisan sniping, ebbing morale, or calls for a negotiated peace. In this provocative book, Steven Casey challenges conventional wisdom about America's participation in World War II. He traces the development of elite and mass attitudes toward Germany, fro…