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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1979. American diplomacy during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency has received much attention, with one notable exceptionthe 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 de
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter 1. The Republican Prelude
Chapter 2. The Democratic Transition
Chapter 3. Nonintervention: Reality and Illusion
Chapter 4. Depression Economics
Chapter 5. Consolidation by the First Term's Finale
Chapter 6. Neutrality with an Allied Bias
Chapter 7. No Transfer
Chapter 8. The Specter of Nazi Penetration
Chapter 9. To War
Chapter 10. Solidifying Inter-American Defenses
Chapter 11. The Emergence of Cultural Cooperation
Chapter 12. Wartime Economics
Chapter 13. At and Over the Summit
Chapter 14. The Disintegrating Alliance
Chapter 15. The Region Before the World
Chapter 16. The Region and the World
Epilogue
Abbreviations Used in the Notes
Notes
Index
