The New York Times Book Review called John Charmley's previous book on Winston Churchill "entertaining, informative, and infuriating." With equally impressive scholarship, eloquence, and wit, Charmley now turns to the Anglo-American "special relationship" that was the cornerstone of Churchill's foreign policy, ruthlessly stripping away the myth to reveal the unsentimental reality of the Churchill years and beyond, from 1940 to 1957. Churchill carried on the war because of his misguided faith that U.S. help could be enlisted to save the British Empire, contends Charmley. President Roosevelt, however, sought an end to imperialism and thus entered the war only belatedly, ensuring that Britian would end the war weak and dependent on America. And Britian did indeed become a U.S. "pensioner"-a reality dramatically confirmed in 1956, when American pressure led to the removal of Prime Minister Anthony Eden. With vivid assessments of Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Churchill, and Eden, John Charmley brilliantly continues his though-provoking-and sometimes infuriating-ways.
Author(s): John Charmley
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company
Year: 1995
Language: English
Pages: 427
PART I: CHURCHILL’S AMERICAN ALLIANCE
1 Special Relationships 3
2 Churchill’s Roosevelt = 11
3 Alliances 2%
4 Uncle Sam and the Brave New World 35
5 The Empire at Bay 48
6 The ‘mad house’ and the Kremlin 59
7 Anglo-Saxon Attitudes 72
PART II: A ‘SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP’?
8 A Suitable America? 89
9 Seeking a Suitable Stalin 102
10 ‘Lady Bountiful’ and Uncle Sam 114
11 Roosevelt’s Last Throw 129
12 The End of FDR 143
13 Enter Mr Truman = 157
14 ‘Diplomatic language’ or “a baseball bat’? —_1 69
15 The Great Game _ 182
16 The ‘Anglo-Saxon thesis’ 193
17. The Winds of Change 204
18 ‘On the hills of old Missouri’ 217
PART III: THE END OF BRITISH POWER
19 Consequences 231
20 Churchill’s ‘Grand Alliance’ 241
21 Renewing the Grand Alliance? 252
22 Defeated by ‘the bastard” 253
23 “They like to give orders’ 274
24 The Act of Succession, 287
25 Tensions and Disagreements 297
26 “Misguided sentimental investments’ 30
27 Schism 322
28 Macmillan’s Metamorphosis 333
29 The Strange End of Anthony Eden 346
Epilogue 356
Notes 362
Bibliography 393
Index 400
