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Author Vieth, Jane Karoline, author.

Title Tempting All the Gods Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Great Britain, 1938-1940 / Jane Karoline Vieth
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2021]
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
[2021]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents The Irish Prince -- The Lion's Mouth -- Shirt-Sleeve Diplomacy: Trade, Treaties, Troubles -- Peace For Our Time -- Into an Abyss -- Peace At Any Price -- It's The End Of The World ... The End Of Everything ... -- This Is Not Our Fight -- England at Bay -- Very Well, Alone -- To Be and Not to Be
Summary " 'Tempting All The Gods' is a detailed study of Joseph P. Kennedy's diplomatic career in London. It examines Kennedy's role as ambassador from 1938 to 1940. It describes his attitudes toward American foreign policy before the outbreak of war and after the war began, explains why he held those views, and assesses their impact on Anglo-American relations"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based on print version record
SUBJECT Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969
Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969 fast
Munich Four-Power Agreement (1938) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50063330
Munich Four-Power Agreement fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.
Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography
HISTORY / General
Diplomatic relations
Diplomatic history
Ambassadors
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1936-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056716
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140096
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
Subject United States
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Rock, William R., writer of foreword
Project Muse. distributor.
LC no. 2020020842
ISBN 9781609176648
1609176642
9781628954234
162895423X