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FDR and the Creation of the U.N. Book

At a time when it is fashionable to declare the United Nations as part of the problem, rather than the solution, to international conflicts, two noted historians lucidly explain how the original objective of the body has been lost among indecision, ideological quarreling, and a lack of clear leadership. In FDR and the Creation of the U.N., Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley examine the inception of the U.N. and chart its rocky history, identifying FDR as the primary player in the creation of the assembly. In citing the U.N.'s biggest problems, the authors do not call for disbanding the body. Instead, in keeping with FDR's original vision, they offer solutions for improvements and insights. The challenges are formidable, however, as even daily operations are stalled due to the debt of $3.3 billion owed by U.N. members. The authors pay particular attention to the United States' responsibility for international peacekeeping. To make the U.N. effective, they argue, the U.S. must not only pay its share of the debt, but accept the fact that it has the military and political power to create results--if only it chooses to do so.Read More

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    Prize-winning historians Hoopes and Brinkley tell the engrossing story of the American role in the formation of the United Nations and provide an important historical perspective on the organization`s fifty-year history of peacekeeping efforts. They show how President Franklin D. Roosevelt, disenchanted with the failed League of Nations and determined to break the cycle of ever more destructive wars, worked with American and foreign leaders and became the driving force behind the creation of the U. N.

  • 0300069308
  • 9780300069303
  • T Hoopes
  • 1 April 1997
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 304
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