Henry J. Brajkovic
For Teachers:
Bailey, Thomas A.
A Diplomatic History of the American People.
9th ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1974. Pages 683-742 cover the prewar foreign policy of F.D.R.
Divine, Robert A.
The Reluctant Belligerent: American Entry Into World War II.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1965.
Divine, Robert A., ed.
Causes and Consequences of World War II.
Chicago: 1969. The introduction and Chapter II are helpful.
Feis, Herbert.
The Road to Pearl Harbor: The Coming of the War Between the United States and Japan
. Princeton; Princeton University Press, 1950.
Mowry, George E.
The Urban Nation, 1920-1960
. New York: Hall and Wang, 1965. 278 pages. Chapter 5 covers foreign policy from 1933-1941.
Offner, Arnold.
American Appeasement: United States Foreign Policy and Germany, 1933-1938
. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.
For Students:
Athearn, Robert G.
American Heritage New Illustrated History of The United States, The Roosevelt Era.
New York: Fawcett, 1971. Vols. XIV and XV. Special picture portfolio on F.D.R., pages 1187-1207.
F.D.R. vs. the Supreme Court
by Merlo J. Pusey, pages 1253-1258. Vol. 15 World War II. Background for war, pages 1265-1274.
Pew, Thomas, W., Jr. “Route 66: Ghost Road of the Okies.”
American Heritage
, 28, No. 5 (1977), 36-44.
Terkel, Louis (Studs).
Hard Times
. New York: Pantheon Books, Random House, 1970. Very interesting personalities tell their own experience.
Wigginton, Eliot. “
I Wish I Could Give My Son A Wild Raccoon
.” Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1976. Oral history interviews of people who lived through and after the Depression. Interesting reading.
Winslow, Susan.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? America from the Wall Street Crash to Pearl Harbor.
Paddington Press, Ltd., 1976. An illustrated and an interesting book for the students with newspaper headlines, photographs, and quotations from books and magazines.
Material for Classroom Use:
Records:
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
The Voice of F.D.R
:
Excerpts of His Speeches during the Presidential Years (1932-1945)
. Foreword by Robert Sherwood, special narration by Quenin Reynolds. Decca Records, DL9628.
Morison, Samuel E., and William F. Suchmann.
Samuel Eliot Morison Discusses American History with William F. Suchmann
: Pearl Harbor No. 9. (The Academic Recording Institute,) No. 9/
The teacher could select portions of these records that would cover the material in this unit.