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Book Good Neighbor Ambassador

Download or read book Good Neighbor Ambassador written by Edmund David Cronon and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book FDR s Good Neighbor Policy

Download or read book FDR s Good Neighbor Policy written by Fredrick B. Pike and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Roosevelt, the primary author of America’s Good Neighbor Policy. In this thought-provoking book, Bolton Prize winner Fredrick Pike takes a wide-ranging look at FDR’s motives for pursuing the Good Neighbor Policy, how he implemented it, and how its themes played out up to the mid-1990s. Pike’s investigation goes far beyond standard studies of foreign and economic policy. He explores how FDR’s personality and Eleanor Roosevelt’s social activism made them uniquely simpático to Latin Americans. He also demonstrates how Latin culture flowed north to influence U.S. literature, film, and opera. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in hemispheric relations.

Book Good Neighbor Ambassador

Download or read book Good Neighbor Ambassador written by Edmund David Cronon and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Good Neighbor

Download or read book The Good Neighbor written by Maxwell King and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller: “A superb, thoughtful biography” of the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (David McCullough). Fred Rogers was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. Through his long-running television program, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their fears, concerns, and questions about the world seriously. The Good Neighbor, the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers, tells the story of this utterly unique and enduring American icon. Drawing on original interviews, oral histories, and archival documents, Maxwell King traces Rogers’s personal, professional, and artistic life through decades of work. King explores Rogers’s surprising decision to walk away from his show to make television for adults, only to return to the neighborhood with increasingly sophisticated episodes, written in collaboration with experts on childhood development. An engaging story, rich in detail, The Good Neighbor is the definitive portrait of a beloved figure, cherished by multiple generations.

Book Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators

Download or read book Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators written by Jorrit van den Berk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few works of history, if any, delve into the daily interactions of U.S. Foreign Service members in Latin America during the era of Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy. But as Jorrit van den Berk argues, the encounters between these rank-and-file diplomats and local officials reveal the complexities, procedures, intrigues, and shifting alliances that characterized the precarious balance of U.S. foreign relations with right-wing dictatorial regimes. Using accounts from twenty-two ministers and ambassadors, Becoming a Good Neighbor among Dictators is a careful, sophisticated account of how the U.S. Foreign Service implemented ever-changing State Department directives from the 1930s through the Second World War and early Cold War, and in so doing, transformed the U.S.-Central American relationship. How did Foreign Service officers translate broad policy guidelines into local realities? Could the U.S. fight dictatorships in Europe while simultaneously collaborating with dictators in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras? What role did diplomats play in the standoff between democratic and authoritarian forces? In investigating these questions, Van den Berk draws new conclusions about the political culture of the Foreign Service, its position between Washington policymakers and local actors, and the consequences of foreign intervention.

Book Good Neighbor Diplomacy

Download or read book Good Neighbor Diplomacy written by Irwin Gellman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1979. American diplomacy during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency has received much attention, with one notable exception—the United States' relations with Latin America. Irwin Gellman's book corrects this past neglect through a perceptive analysis of FDR's "Good Neighbor" efforts in Latin America. Based on a fresh examination of State Department records and extensive manuscript sources (including an unprecedented use of Nelson Rockefeller's oral history archives), the book points out the complexities of Good Neighbor diplomacy and its intimate relationship to Roosevelt's global strategies. As background to his discussions of FDR's policies, Gellman looks first at how Latin American affairs were handled during the administrations of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, the three Republicans who preceded Roosevelt in office. Good Neighbor diplomacy, Gellman shows, was not a carryover from these administrations; it bore the distinctive mark of FDR's own making. He then describes how Roosevelt's policy of nonintervention worked, particularly how military force was superseded by more subtle diplomatic maneuverings. Turning to a discussion of economic relations with Latin America, Gellman focuses on how the United States' own situation—cut off from international trade by the Depression—encouraged regional expansion. And, finally, he looks at how Roosevelt parlayed the threat of war in Europe and the specter of Nazi penetration in the Americas to further solidify a hemispheric stand. Gellman's account vividly demonstrates that Good Neighbor diplomacy was as much the product of personality as it was of policy. In particular, it emerged out of the rivalries and alliances among three men: Roosevelt; his Secretary of State, Cordell Hull; and Assistant Secretary of State, Sumner Welles. Gellman (the first to have access to FBI files on Welles) characterizes FDR as an astute politician who saw an opportunity to use pan-Americanism to restore America to world prominence—yet could not handle the personality conflicts among those in his own ranks. Gellman shows how tenuous a government policy can be when so much of it depends on personal control and influence.

Book The Ambassador of Vine Street

Download or read book The Ambassador of Vine Street written by Taryn Kingery and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our neighborhoods need more people who know and care for each other in the world in which we live. Our neighborhoods need people like YOU! What does it mean to be a good neighbor? A little boy named Warner learns what it means to be welcoming, spontaneous, generous, helpful, responsible, and community-minded from the people on his street. Follow along with him and become a neighbor ambassador on your street.

Book The Power of Words

Download or read book The Power of Words written by Allison Palmer Kelly and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conner Beckett awaits his fate as his final basketball season begins at Trotter Academy. Frustrated with his coach who refuses to announce the starting line-up until the first home game, Conner quickly snatches up a locker room bribe from classmate Darcy Davis, who has stolen the list from the coach. He is thrilled when she tells him he has made the starting line-up. But there is only one problem: Darcy, who has already gained quite a reputation at their school, is rumored to have done much more than reveal names to all the players on the list. Suddenly, the price Conner has paid to see his fate is far greater than he ever imagined. After his girlfriend, Kristen Kessler, hears the rumors about Conner and the girl with a sordid past, she immediately breaks up with him, despite Conners pleas that none of it is true. As chaos races through the halls of Trotter Academy, the rumor mill implodes, resulting in a horrific tragedy. Plagued by confusion and grief, the students of Trotter Academy struggle to understand bullying, communication, and themselves. Dr. Suzanne Carlton arrives with her daughter, Ava, to institute a program that they hope will help the students healand Ava, who lost a sister to suicide, makes a unexpected connection with Conner. In this poignant story, a teenager unwittingly caught in a web of deceit must rise above his mistakes and understand the power of words.

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2218 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 2218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Era of Franklin D  Roosevelt

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  • Author : William James Stewart
  • Publisher : Hyde Park, N.Y. : Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, National Archives and Record Service, General Services Administration
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book The Era of Franklin D Roosevelt written by William James Stewart and published by Hyde Park, N.Y. : Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, National Archives and Record Service, General Services Administration. This book was released on 1974 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Americans All

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  • Author : Darlene J. Sadlier
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 0292749805
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Americans All written by Darlene J. Sadlier and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural diplomacy—“winning hearts and minds” through positive portrayals of the American way of life—is a key element in U.S. foreign policy, although it often takes a backseat to displays of military might. Americans All provides an in-depth, fine-grained study of a particularly successful instance of cultural diplomacy—the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA), a government agency established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 and headed by Nelson A. Rockefeller that worked to promote hemispheric solidarity and combat Axis infiltration and domination by bolstering inter-American cultural ties. Darlene J. Sadlier explores how the CIAA used film, radio, the press, and various educational and high-art activities to convince people in the United States of the importance of good neighbor relations with Latin America, while also persuading Latin Americans that the United States recognized and appreciated the importance of our southern neighbors. She examines the CIAA’s working relationship with Hollywood’s Motion Picture Society of the Americas; its network and radio productions in North and South America; its sponsoring of Walt Disney, Orson Welles, John Ford, Gregg Toland, and many others who traveled between the United States and Latin America; and its close ties to the newly created Museum of Modern Art, which organized traveling art and photographic exhibits and produced hundreds of 16mm educational films for inter-American audiences; and its influence on the work of scores of artists, libraries, book publishers, and newspapers, as well as public schools, universities, and private organizations.

Book The Dismantling of the Good Neighbor Policy

Download or read book The Dismantling of the Good Neighbor Policy written by Bryce Wood and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Good Neighbor Policy was unique: a great power obligated itself not to use force in its dealings with twenty smaller powers and not to interfere in their domestic politics. It was a policy that lasted, with some perturbations, for twenty years: instituted by President Roosevelt in 1933 and carried out effectively from 1933 to 1943 by word and action, maintained during the Second World War largely as a result of British concern for continuance of Argentine beef exports, codified in the Charter of the Organization of American States in 1948, and reasserted by Truman and Acheson in 1950–51, it was covertly repudiated in Guatemala in 1954 by Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers, and not so secretly by Kennedy in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. Openly shattered in the Dominican Republic by Johnson in 1965, it has since been completely abandoned in favor of the usual relationships between large and small powers. Working with documents from the Public Records Office in London and the National Archives, with recently released materials from the U.S. Department of State, and with secondary sources, Bryce Wood describes the temptations laid before the leaders of one powerful state by its occasionally recalcitrant neighbors, and the ways of reacting that were found. Having told half the story in his The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy, Wood now concludes it in the present volume. One of the chief casualties is shown to be the Organization of American States, which since 1954 has found itself badly crippled in its work to promote harmony and continued cooperation among the member states.

Book The Dismantling of the Good Neighbor Policy

Download or read book The Dismantling of the Good Neighbor Policy written by Bryce Wood and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Good Neighbor Policy was unique: a great power obligated itself not to use force in its dealings with twenty smaller powers and not to interfere in their domestic politics. It was a policy that lasted, with some perturbations, for twenty years: instituted by President Roosevelt in 1933 and carried out effectively from 1933 to 1943 by word and action, maintained during the Second World War largely as a result of British concern for continuance of Argentine beef exports, codified in the Charter of the Organization of American States in 1948, and reasserted by Truman and Acheson in 1950–51, it was covertly repudiated in Guatemala in 1954 by Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers, and not so secretly by Kennedy in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. Openly shattered in the Dominican Republic by Johnson in 1965, it has since been completely abandoned in favor of the usual relationships between large and small powers. Working with documents from the Public Records Office in London and the National Archives, with recently released materials from the U.S. Department of State, and with secondary sources, Bryce Wood describes the temptations laid before the leaders of one powerful state by its occasionally recalcitrant neighbors, and the ways of reacting that were found. Having told half the story in his The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy, Wood now concludes it in the present volume. One of the chief casualties is shown to be the Organization of American States, which since 1954 has found itself badly crippled in its work to promote harmony and continued cooperation among the member states.

Book The Era of Franklin D  Roosevelt

    Book Details:
  • Author : William James Stewart
  • Publisher : Hyde Park, N.Y : General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book The Era of Franklin D Roosevelt written by William James Stewart and published by Hyde Park, N.Y : General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. This book was released on 1967 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Development of the Good Neighbor Policy  January 1942 to July 1945

Download or read book Development of the Good Neighbor Policy January 1942 to July 1945 written by Lottie May Manross and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foreign Relations of the United States

Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Conferences at Washington and Quebec  1943

Download or read book The Conferences at Washington and Quebec 1943 written by United States. Department of State. Historical Office and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: