Noble Abstractions: American Liberal Intellectuals and World War II

Warren (history, City U. of New York-Queens College) explores the meaning of the war for Henry Wallace, Freda Kirchwey, Thomas Amlie, and others politically committed to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. He finds that they characterized it as a democratic revolution and an international civil war between democracy and fascism, and expected it to produce far-reaching domestic and international political, economic, and social change. He also looks at their political and moral dilemmas when they disagreed with Roosevelt's conduct of the war. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR