Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism

Talbot C. Imlay is Professor of History at Université Laval in Québec, specializing in modern European and international history. He is the author of several books including The Practice of Socialist Internationalism: European Socialists and International Politics, 1914-1960, and, with Martin Horn, The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II: Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany.

• Introduction; 1. The making of an Atlantic Federalist, 1914 to 1939; 2. Writing and selling Union Now, 1939-1941; 3. The wartime pursuit of Federal Union, 1940-1945; 4. Clarence Streit and Federal Union during the Cold War; 5. Clarence Streit, the Atlantic Union Committee, and postwar Atlanticism; Conclusion.

'More than a biography of Clarence Streit, Imlay's book tells a fascinating history of internationalist thought, politics, and possibilities. Revealing how foreign policy ideas take shape in the public sphere, it also recovers vibrant debates over the postwar international order and competing visions of an imagined transatlantic community.' Julia F. Irwin, author of Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation's Humanitarian Awakening