Seekers and Partisans

David Mayers teaches at Boston University, where he holds a joint professorship in the history and political science departments. His principal books are George Kennan and the Dilemmas of U.S. Foreign Policy; The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy; Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861–1991;  America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945–1956; and with Cambridge University Press, Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power; and FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis.

• Introduction; Part I. Wars: 1. The lure of Ethiopia; 2. Quixotic calling; 3. Chinese maelstrom; Part II. Axis: 4. Apologia for Mussolini; 5. Japan forays; 6. Chasing after strange gods; Part III. Survival: 7. In Vichy France; 8. Defense of the islands; 9. Soviet crucible; 10. Coming home; Bibliography; Index.

'David Mayers provides the reader with a beautifully written, methodologically significant, historical account of the most interesting, albeit under explored, periods in American history, the years 1935 to 1941.' Sarah-Jane Corke, University of New Brunswick