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Praise for Freedom Betrayed
“Finally, after waiting for close to half a century, we now have Hoover’s massive
and impassioned account of American foreign policy from 1933 to the early 1950s.
Thanks to the efforts of George H. Nash, there exists an unparalleled picture of
Hoover’s world view, one long shared by many conservatives. Nash’s thorough and
perceptive introduction shows why he remains America’s leading Hoover scholar.”
—J
USTUS
D
.
D
OENECKE
, author of
Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to
American Intervention, 1939–1941
“A forcefully argued and well documented alternative to, and critique of, the
conventional liberal historical narrative of America’s road to war and its war aims.
Even readers comfortable with the established account will find themselves
thinking that on some points the accepted history should be reconsidered and
perhaps revised.”
—J
OHN
E
ARL
H
AYNES
, author of
Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in
America
“Freedom
Betrayed
offers vivid proof of William Faulkner’s famous dictum that
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” For those who might think that history
has settled the mantle of consensus around the events of the World War II era,
Hoover’s iconoclastic narrative will come as an unsettling reminder that much
controversy remains. By turns quirky and astute, in prose that is often acerbic and
unfailingly provocative, Hoover opens some old wounds and inflicts a few new
ones of his own, while assembling a passionate case for the tragic errors of
Franklin Roosevelt’s diplomacy. Not all readers will be convinced, but
Freedom
Betrayed
is must-read for anyone interested in the most consequential upheaval of
the twentieth century.”
—D
AVID
M
.
K
ENNEDY
is professor of history emeritus at Stanford University
and the author of
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression
and War, 1929–1945.
“Herbert Hoover’s
Freedom Betrayed
is a bracing work of historical revisionism
that takes aim at U.S. foreign policy under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Part memoir and part diplomatic history, Hoover’s magnum opus seeks to expose
the ‘lost statesmanship’ that, in Hoover’s eyes, needlessly drew the United States
into the Second World War and, in the aftermath, facilitated the rise to global power
of its ideological rival, the Soviet Union.
Freedom Betrayed,
as George Nash asserts
in his astute and authoritative introduction, resembles a prosecutor’s brief against
Roosevelt—and against Winston Churchill as well—at the bar of history. Thanks to
Nash’s impressive feat of reconstruction, Hoover’s ‘thunderbolt’ now strikes—
nearly a half-century after it was readied. The former president’s interpretation of
the conduct and consequences of the Second World War will not entirely persuade
most readers. Yet, as Nash testifies, like the best kind of revisionist history,
Freedom Betrayed
“challenges us to think afresh about our past.”
—B
ERTRAND
M
.
P
ATENAUDE
, author of
A Wealth of Ideas: Revelations from
the Hoover Institution Archives
“What an amazing historical find! Historian George H. Nash, the dean of Herbert
Hoover studies, has brought forth a very rare manuscript in
Freedom Betrayed.
Here is Hoover unplugged, delineating on everything from the ‘lost statesmanship’
of FDR to the Korean War. A truly invaluable work of presidential history. Highly
recommended.”
—D
OUGLAS
B
RINKLEY
is professor of history at Rice University and editor of
The Reagan Diaries.
“Nearly fifty years after his death, Herbert Hoover returns as the ultimate revisionist
historian, prosecuting his heavily documented indictment of US foreign policy
before, during, and after the Second World War. Brilliantly edited by George Nash,
Freedom Betrayed
is as passionate as it is provocative. Many no doubt will dispute
Hoover’s strategic vision. But few can dispute the historical significance of this
unique volume, published even as Americans of the twenty-first century debate
their moral and military obligations.”
—R
ICHARD
N
ORTON
S
MITH
is a presidential historian and author, former
director of several presidential libraries, and current scholar-in-residence at
George Mason University.
Freedom Betrayed
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964).
Courtesy H. Hoover Presidential Library; Richard Beattie, photographer

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