In the Time of the Americans: The Generation That Changed America's Role in the World

Fromkin, David

ISBN 10: 0333638999 / ISBN 13: 9780333638996

Published by Macmillan, London, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Time of the Americans: The Generation That Changed America's Role in the World
• Publisher: Macmillan, London
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333638999
• ISBN 13: 9780333638996
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
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Synopsis

Within a few years of each other in the 1880s five Americans were born who would play large parts in leading the way toward a new balance of global power - away from Europe in favour of the United States - over the course of the first and second world wars and beyond. These men had been born into a political world dominated by Europe. When their careers were complete no nation could match American influence politically, economically and militarily. This is a major work of popular history by the acclaimed author of A Peace to End All Peace. David Fromkin brings a sparkling fluency and storytelling instinct to the wonderfully large narrative and the characters who form its story - Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall and MacArthur.

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Coming of age during World War I and attaining their finest hour in World War II and the Cold War, these men--FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur--transformed America from an isolated frontier nation into a global superpower. As he tells their stories, Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace, shows how this generation not only made America great but largely succeeded in making it a force for good.