The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II

by Nicholas Wapshott

Book Overview

May 1938. Franklin Delano Roosevelt--recently reelected to a second term as president--sat in the Oval Office and contemplated two possibilities: the rule of fascism overseas, and a third term.

With Hitler's reach extending into Austria, and with the atrocities of World War I still fresh in the American memory, Roosevelt faced the question that would prove one of the most defining in American history: whether to once again go to war in Europe.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039308888X
• ISBN13: 9780393088885
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.5"