Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World

摘要

Recent years have seen a number of books reex-amining President Franklin D. Roosevelt's role in Americas entry into World War Ⅱ, Michael Fullilove's Rendezvous with Destiny is a well-researched addition to that literature. Fullilove states that the period from 1939 to 1941, rather than the beginning of the Cold War, was the turning point of the twentieth century which brought the United States out of isolation and into the world. This emergence was helped, Fullilove argues, by Roosevelt sending five personal envoys to Europe before the United States entered World War Ⅱ.