Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941

Using a vast array of official documents secured at the highest levels of the US Government, official US Senate historian and history professor Charles Tansill delves deep into the origins of American involvement in the Second World War, and comes to a startling conclusion: that, despite public pronouncements to the contrary, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration actively sought to participate in that conflict.

To that end, Professor Tansill shows, US diplomacy in the 1930s was focuss...