{"product_id":"the-most-unsordid-act-9781421430720","title":"The Most Unsordid Act","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1969. In The Most Unsordid Act, Warren Kimball provides a history of the Lend-Lease idea. The genesis and development of the Lend-Lease idea, although spanning less than two years, offers a subject of the broadest significance for major questions of democratic government and society. The story begins with the United States' growing recognition of the British monetary and gold shortage and ends with the passage of the Lend-Lease Act and the American commitment that it involved. Dr. Kimball's narrativechronological, detailed, and dramaticincludes analyses of the domestic and international concerns on both sides of the Atlantic and of the roles of the leading protagonists: President F. D. Roosevelt and Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, as well as Stimson, Hull, Churchill, and key British representatives. He also examines the possibility that Lend-Lease was designed to benefit the American economy at Britain's expense. A central question animates Kimball's account: How\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. The Crisis Develops: September 1939-November 1940\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. \"A Terrible, Stultifying Vacuum\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. \"God, Love and Anglo-American Relationa\": The French Crisis\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Of Garden Hoses and Other Stories: Summer and Fall 1940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. The Crisis Faced and Solved: November 1940=March 1941\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. \"Money-Above All, Ready Money\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The \"Shoot the Works\" Bill: Lend-Lease, Inception to Proposal\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. \"God Save America From a King Named George\"-Or Franklin: The Congressional Debate\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. \"From Something Like Disaster\": The Passage of the Lend-Lease Ast\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. \"Like Hitting Wads of Cotton Wool\": Conclusions\u003cbr\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866939142487,"sku":"9781421430720","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421430720.jpg?v=1722280996","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-most-unsordid-act-9781421430720","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}