FDR and the creation of the U.N. / Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-277) and index. Contents; The ghost of Woodrow Wilson -- A grim road to war -- Argentia and the Atlantic charter -- Postwar planning begins -- The widening public debate -- Progress in 1943 -- Will the Russians participate? -- Quebec and Moscow -- Cairo and Teheran -- High hopes but inherent limits -- Domestic politics in 1944 -- The Dumbarton Oaks Conference I -- The Dumbarton Oaks Conference II -- The 1944 election -- An unsettling winter -- Contention and compromise at San Francisco -- Epilogue -- Appendix : Charter of the United Nations. Subjects; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945). United Nations United States History. Diplomatic relations. United Nations United States Political history F. D. Roosevelt administration, (1933-1945). United States Foreign relations (1933-1945). Genres; Bibliography. History. Illustrated.