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Good. Signed by author. Some rought page edges. Short inscription by Tansill on fep. Cover has some wear and soiling. x, 731, [3]. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. The author was the Albert Shaw Lecturer in Diplomatic History, John Hopkins University, 1931. From an on-line posting: Charles Tansill was a prominent and controversial revisionist historian holding Ph.D. s from the Catholic University of America and Johns Hopkins University, Charles Tansill taught history at the Catholic University of America (1915 16), American University (1919 37), Fordham University (1939 44), and Georgetown University (1944 57). He wrote several works of diplomatic history, including The Canadian Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 (1922), The Purchase of the Danish West Indies (1932), and Major Issues in Canadian-American Relations (1943). Attributing America s entry into World War I partly to lucrative economic ties to the Allies and the sympathy of President Woodrow Wilson s advisor Colonel Edward House and Secretary of State Robert Lansing for Britain, his massive, carefully documented America Goes to War (1938) won acclaim from fellow historians. Back Door to War (1952), Tansill s voluminous critical history of President Franklin Roosevelt s 1933 41 foreign policy, was a major revisionist challenge to the mainstream account of World War II. Since 1900, Tansill asserted, America s foreign policy had mainly sought to preserve the British empire. He blamed America s involvement in the war partly on Henry Stimson s belligerence toward Japan since 1932. But mostly Tansill faulted Roosevelt, accusing him of pressuring Neville Chamberlain to fight Hitler; of increasingly involving America in Britain s war effort; of trying to provoke Hitler into attacking American warships in the Atlantic; and, by escalating economic and diplomatic pressure, of maneuvering the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor. Well documented, polemical, and Anglophobic, Back Door to War received mixed reviews.
