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The Sailor is an important interpretive analysis of the Roosevelt administration's foreign policy. By challenging previously held assumptions, Schmitz constructs a new narrative about FDR's overall attitude to the US and its role in a postwar world. He shows how FDR successfully transformed US neutrality into US internationalism, forever changing the direction of American foreign policy.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Between the Scylla of Reaction and the Charybdis of Bolshevism: Woodrow Wilson and Italy -- Chapter 2 A Fine Young Revolution: The Fascist March on Rome -- Chapter 3 Establishing Normalcy: The United States and Mussolini, 1922-1925 -- Chapter 4 Fixing the Pendulum: Italian War Debts and Foreign Policy -- Chapter 5 A House in Order: Italy and the Great Depression -- Chapter 6 That Admirable Italian Gentleman: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Italy, 1933-1935 -- Chapter 7 The Most Hair Trigger Times: Ethiopia and the Origins of Appeasement -- Chapter 8 The Surest Route to Peace: Economic Appeasement, 1936-1938 -- Chapter 9 Splitting the Axis: Policy toward Italy, 1938-1940 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

As National Security Advisor to President Gerald Ford, advisor to President Ronald Reagan, and as National Security Advisor to President George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft was at the center of the ongoing debate over how to shape American foreign policy in the post-war world. As David F. Schmitz makes clear in his new biography, Scowcroft was a realist in his outlook on American foreign policy and an heir to the Cold War internationalism that had shaped that policy since 1945. The type of bi-partisan cooperation and internationalism that marked the pre-Vietnam War years served as Scowcroft's guide to how to defend American interests and promote U.S. values and institutions globally. While not always successful, Scowcroft provided a consistent internationalist voice in the midst of change.

"The Triumph of Internationalism offers a fresh, concise analysis and narrative of FDR's foreign policy from 1933 to America's entry into World War II in 1941. David Schmitz covers the attempts to solve the international economic crisis of the Great Depression, the Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America, the U.S. response to war in Europe and the Pacific, and other topics of this turbulent era."--Jacket

"Building on David Schmitz's earlier work, Thank God They're on Our Side, this is an examination of American policy toward right-wing dictatorships from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War. During the 1920s, American leaders developed a policy of supporting authoritarian regimes because they were seen as stable, anticommunist, and capitalist. After 1965, however, American support for these regimes became a contested issue. The Vietnam War served to undercut the logic and rationale of supporting right-wing dictators

The end of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975, appeared to Senator Frank Church to provide "an opportune time for some reflections on America's role in the world," particularly for a reevaluation of the policies which led to that protracted, painful, and divisive conflict. Church, who had been a leading Senate critic of the war since 1965, and who chaired the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1975, quickly learned that his hopes for a new direction in American policy toward Asia, Africa, and Latin America were not to be realized. Rather, as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger affirmed in March 1975, there was to be no change in the assumptions that underpinned American policy. This article examines the efforts by Church to redirect American foreign policy after Vietnam. Church had long been frustrated by what he saw as the exaggeration of the Soviet threat in the Third World and by the character of U.S. intervention abroad. Watergate and the revelations of CIA efforts to assassinate foreign leaders and overthrow governments added to Church's sense of urgency. Yet, the Gerald Ford administration fought those who proposed new geopolitical strategies and ideas.