Discussing Hitler - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9639241563 ISBN 13: 9789639241565

Publisher: Central European University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This book promises to illuminate the foreign policy of the Roosevelt administration during the rise of Hitler's Germany. It is based on the heretofore unpublished notes of J. F. Montgomery (1878-1954), U.S. ambassador (Minister) to Hungary before World War II. In Budapest, Montgomery quickly made friends with nearly everyone who mattered in the critical years of Hitler's takeover and preparation for World War II. His circle included Admiral Horthy, the Regent of Hungary, subsequent prime ministers, foreign ministers, members of both houses of parliament, as well as fellow diplomats from all over Europe. In addition, as an avid player of golf and bridge, he had an active social life that was interconnected with a large circle of influential friends in the United States.

About this title

About the Author

Tibor Frank is Professor of History at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Between 1987 and 2001 he was Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara, UCLA, University of Nevada-Reno and Columbia University. His work includes Ethnicity, Propaganda, Myth-Making (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1999) and From Habsburg Agent to Victorian Scholar: G. G. Zerffi, 1820–1892 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). In 2002, he was awarded the Humboldt Prize.

From the Inside Flap

The book contains Minister John F. Montgomery s valuable "Conversations" (Montgomery's own title) that have survived from the 1935 1941 period in a single, typewritten copy and have been heretofore unpublished. Montgomery dictated the full content of each and every important political discussion to his secretary shortly after returning to his chancery in Budapest. The text therefore preserves the freshness, immediacy, and personal flavor of his political discussions, as if they were part of a journal.

As there is remarkably little written on the American perception of Central Europe before and during World War II, this book promises to illuminate the foreign policy of the Roosevelt administration during the rise of Hitler's Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9639241563
• ISBN 13: 9789639241565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Frank Tibor