Review: Roosevelt's World Order

Range, Willard; D, Franklin (1959). Review: Roosevelt's World Order. Athens, Georgia: Universtty of Georgia Press.

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Abstract: Here is another addition to the Roosevelt literature, a range of books that now has large proportions. The present volume examines Franklin D. Roosevelt as a thinker on world affairs. Its first three chapters look at Roosevelt's opinions on the breakdown of world order in the twentieth century and his understanding of what that breakdown meant for the United States. There follow topical chapters on the kind of world order that Roosevelt wished to see replace the order already broken, with consideration of such subjects as the good neighbor ideal, disarmament, abolition of imperialism, world-wide democracy and freedom, a global new deal, and collective security. Roosevelt, Professor Range shows, believed in these things. The author, a member of the political science department of the University of Georgia, has read widely in the Roosevelt literature and examined the files at the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park. At the end of the book there are 852 citations (for 203 pages of text). The volume is well written, in clear and careful if humorless prose. It closes, one should add, with a disgracefully amateurish index.

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DOI: 10.2307/1891748
MAG: 374239211
CorpusID: 160589726
OpenAlex: W374239211