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Book SynopsisAndrew Johnstone tells the story of how internationalist Americans worked between 1938 and 1941 to convince the U.S. government and the American public of the need to stem the rising global tide of fascist aggression.
Trade ReviewAgainst Immediate Evil is an important contribution to the historiography of the formation of the foundations of American foreign policy as the United States asserted its role in the mid-twentieth century as not just a great power, but as an emerging global superpower.... Andrew Johnstone's book is a concise and readable chronological narrative of the development of the American internationalist before the entrance of the United States in the Second World War.
-- Grant Harward * H-War *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Four Freedoms1. The Sino-Japanese War and the American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression2. The Coming of War and the American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts3. The Phony War and the Non-Partisan Committee for Peace through Revision of the Neutrality Law4. Blitzkrieg and the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies5. The Destroyer-Bases Agreement and the Century Group6. Maximum Aid and the Battle for Lend-Lease7. Deliver the Goods and Fight for Freedom8. The Battle of the Atlantic from Barbarossa to Pearl HarborEpilogue: War and BeyondNotes
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