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Charles de Gaulle
A Thorn in the Side of Six American Presidents
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2020
Summary
In this definitive history, William R. Keylor traces the tumultuous relationship between Charles de Gaulle and a host of other key twentieth-century figures: his former mentor Marshal Philippe Pétain, who headed the collaborationist government in the southern French city of Vichy as the German army occupied the northern two-thirds of the country; Sir Winston Churchill, the British prime minister whose government supported and financed de Gaulle and the Free French, but who clashed with the French leader on a number of hot-button issues; and, most critically, the six American presidents from FDR to Nixon. Keylor uses the metaphor “thorn in the side” to emphasize the fact that challenges from the intrepid French leader were often an annoyance to the Americans, who all had many more important issues to deal with—World War II for Roosevelt and Truman, the Cold War for Eisenhower, and the Vietnam War for Kennedy and Johnson. Richard Nixon alone had an excellent relationship, but the two men overlapped for only four months before de Gaulle’s retirement. Thoroughly researched and deeply knowledgeable, this gripping book will appeal to all readers interested in contemporary French and US history.
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Copyright Year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-3674-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-3676-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
366
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
CHAPTER ONE The Young Charles de Gaulle,1890–1940 No access Pages 5 - 22
CHAPTER TWO Fallen France, 1940–1941 No access Pages 23 - 32
CHAPTER THREE FDR and de Gaulle, 1940–1945 No access Pages 33 - 94
CHAPTER FOUR France’s Role in the Postwar International Order No access Pages 95 - 114
CHAPTER FIVE Truman and de Gaulle, 1945–1946 No access Pages 115 - 134
CHAPTER SIX De Gaulle in the Political Wilderness, 1946–1958 No access Pages 135 - 146
CHAPTER SEVEN Eisenhower and de Gaulle,1958–1961 No access Pages 147 - 174
CHAPTER EIGHT Kennedy and de Gaulle, 1961–1963 No access Pages 175 - 204
CHAPTER NINE Johnson and de Gaulle, 1963–1968 No access Pages 205 - 248
CHAPTER TEN Nixon and de Gaulle, 1969 No access Pages 249 - 256
CHAPTER ELEVEN De Gaulle and the United States No access Pages 257 - 262
