FDR's Good Neighbor Policy: Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos

A study of how and why US-Latin American relations changed in the 1930s: "Brilliant . . . [A] charming and perceptive work." ―Foreign Affairs

During the 1930s, the United States began to look more favorably on its southern neighbors. Latin America offered expanded markets to an economy crippled by the Great Depression, while threats of war abroad nurtured in many Americans isolationist tendencies and a desire for improved hemispheric relations. One of these Americans was Franklin Delano R...