Nonintervention — its critics called it isolationism — was the mainstream, consensus position among the American population right up to December 7, 1941, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. At least that's my understanding of what H. W. Brands says in his new book about Lindbergh, FDR, and the run-up to US involvement in the Second World War.
Nonintervention — its critics called it isolationism — was the mainstream, consensus position among the American population right up to December 7, 1941, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. At least that's my understanding of what H. W. Brands says in his new book about Lindbergh, FDR, and the run-up to US involvement in the Second World War.
Brands spoke about the book at length on Shield of the Republic a few weeks ago. I recommend it:
Thank you for this and for the reference. I'll read it! My comment was intended to address Cam's remark during the podcast that we went to war with Germany over the matter of the Holocaust.
Nonintervention — its critics called it isolationism — was the mainstream, consensus position among the American population right up to December 7, 1941, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. At least that's my understanding of what H. W. Brands says in his new book about Lindbergh, FDR, and the run-up to US involvement in the Second World War.
Brands spoke about the book at length on Shield of the Republic a few weeks ago. I recommend it:
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/charles-lindbergh-and-the-ghosts
Thank you for this and for the reference. I'll read it! My comment was intended to address Cam's remark during the podcast that we went to war with Germany over the matter of the Holocaust.