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Informationen zum Autor BILL KAUFFMAN is a contributing editor to Chronicles and Liberty . His work has appeared in The Nation , The Los Angeles Times Book Review , and The Wall Street Journal . He is the author of three books: America First! Its History, Culture, and Politics (1995), Country Tours of New York (1994), and Every Man a King (1989). He lives in upstate New York. Klappentext The America First Committee, founded in September 1940 to keep the United States out of what became the Second World War, was the largest antiwar organization in American history. Its 800,000 members spanned the political spectrum from conservative Republican to Socialist; its spokesmen were prairie populists, Eastern patricians, and, most controversially, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh. Written in 1942, but unpublished until now, this study of the America First Committee by its chief researcher and Senate lobbyist, Ruth Sarles, sheds new light on this frequently misunderstood and misrepresented group. An introduction by Bill Kauffman assesses the place of Ruth Sarles and America First in American history. Ruth Sarles was at the center of the storm. An Ohio-born peace activist with the pacifist National Council for Prevention of War, Sarles knew all of the principals and had a ringside seat for the great debates that pitted isolationists against interventionists. In 1942 she wrote a firsthand history of the America First Committee. But a war was on, and dissent was scarce: her manuscript remained unpublished-until now. Ruth Sarles tells of America First's unlikely birth at the Yale Law School, its extraordinary growth as Middle Americans rallied to the antiwar banner, and the fierce controversies in which it became enmeshed. In this edition, Kauffman uncovers some fascinating sidelights to the era, including a pro-Lindbergh editorial by a student journalist named Kurt Vonnegut. Zusammenfassung The America First Committee! founded in September 1940 to keep the United States out of what became the Second World War! was the largest antiwar organization in American history. An introduction by Bill Kauffman assesses the place of Ruth Sarles and America First in American history. Ruth Sarles was at the center of the storm. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface by William H. Regnery II Editor's Introduction by Bill Kauffman America First Creed Statement of Principles and Objectives: Preamble Introduction Why America First? Laying the Foundations America First Under Fire What the Polls Said Colonel Lindbergh and America First The Antiwar Bloc in the War Congress On the Record Closing the Books Appendix A: Who Were the America Firsters? Appendix B: An Interview with Robert Douglas Stuart Jr. Appendix C: Speakers and National Committee Members of America First ...
