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History
History of World War II and the Holocaust
Christopher D. O’Sullivan
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Introduction
Frank Knox has never previously been the subject of a scholarly biography. This chapter broadly surveys the parameters of the book, exploring its main themes such as the roots of Knox’s internationalism, his r...
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Joining the War Cabinet
While kee** up his attacks on Roosevelt’s New Deal, Knox also battled with his fellow Republicans over foreign affairs during the years 1937–1940. His frequent visits to European capitals in the 1930s infuse...
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Undeclared War in the Atlantic
As a pugnacious publisher and former candidate for national office, Knox relished political combat. He led a spirited rhetorical offensive against critics of the administration’s foreign policy such as the cel...
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Fighting Back
Despite the widespread media, Congressional, and public obsession with Japan in the weeks following the attacks on U.S. military installations in Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island, Knox refused to...
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Conclusion
At the beginning of 1944, entering the third year of U.S. participation in the conflict, Knox could foresee an eventual end to what he characterized as an unprecedentedly destructive war. Sobered by the savage...
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Rough Rider
Born in 1874, Knox left his Midwestern college in 1898 and joined Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. In 1912 he encouraged Roosevelt to enter the presidential...
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Secretary of the Navy
FDR anticipated that Knox would provide the necessary leadership for the administration’s controversial naval expansion program. Knox embarked upon his new job with characteristic zeal. With Congress’s passage...
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War with Japan
This chapter provides insights into the actions of Knox and other senior U.S. officials during the tension-filled months leading to the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941. In the year prior to the Ja...
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War for the Pacific
Knox appreciated the global nature of the war and the interconnectedness of the many theaters of combat. The war against Japan, for example, was stretched across an unprecedented geography, and he grasped that...
