At the president's pleasure : : FDR's leadership of wartime Sino-US relations / / by Sally K. Burt.

• Superior document: Studies on East Asian Security and International Relations, Volume 3
• VerfasserIn: Burt, Sally, 1980-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in East Asian security and international relations ; Volume 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (237 pages) :; illustrations, photographs.

At the President’s Pleasure offers a new perspective on the way the United States and China interacted during World War II. Sally K. Burt examines President Franklin Roosevelt’s methods of conducting diplomacy, particularly his tendency to centralise foreign policy-making into his own hands, as it applied to wartime Sino-US relations. By critiquing the president’s foreign policy leadership with China, Burt provides a new perspective on US diplomacy and opens the door for further exploration of contemporary methods of conducting relations between the US and China. This book, then, will interest scholars, historians, international relations specialists and practitioners and those interested in global politics, both historical and in the present day.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Leaders and Presidents -- Hail to the Chief: FDR’s Leadership Style -- “The Most Important Factor in the Whole East”: FDR’s Vision for Sino-us Relations -- A Vision without a Plan: FDR’s Wartime China Policies -- “The Deckhand Diplomat”: Ambassador Gauss and General Stilwell in China -- Washington Mandarins: FDR’s Personal Representatives to China -- Rubberlegs, the Peanut and the Limeys: FDR’s Summit Diplomacy -- The Changing of the Guard -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.