Patrick J. Hearden is an associate professor of history at Purdue University. His books include The Tragedy of Vietnam (HarperCollins, 1991) and Roosevelt Confronts Hitler: America's Entry into World War Two (Northern Illinois, 1982).

The book's strengths are an immense amount of research in U.S. records [and] a clear and direct writing style. . . . I know of no other work that gets the most important postwar planning in one place, sets up a context, and is based on this kind of research in American sources. [This book] should become a reference work for scholars." —Walter LaFeber, The Andrew and James Tisch Distinguished Professor of History at Cornell University"Hearden's book is the best in the field. [It] is impressively researched and is comprehensive in dealing with nearly every aspect of State Department wartime planning for the postwar world. . . . Hearden presents a well-documented account of the . . . drive for open doors, free markets, and a re-unified world economy. . . . Hearden has mastered, as no one else has, the intricacies of U.S. policies and local issues in nearly every part of the world. . . . It will make a splash among historians. " —Frank Costigliola professor of history at the University of Connecticut

Patrick J. Hearden is an associate professor of history at Purdue University. His books include The Tragedy of Vietnam (HarperCollins, 1991) and Roosevelt Confronts Hitler: America's Entry into World War Two (Northern Illinois, 1982).

The book's strengths are an immense amount of research in U.S. records [and] a clear and direct writing style. . . . I know of no other work that gets the most important postwar planning in one place, sets up a context, and is based on this kind of research in American sources. [This book] should become a reference work for scholars." —Walter LaFeber, The Andrew and James Tisch Distinguished Professor of History at Cornell University"Hearden's book is the best in the field. [It] is impressively researched and is comprehensive in dealing with nearly every aspect of State Department wartime planning for the postwar world. . . . Hearden presents a well-documented account of the . . . drive for open doors, free markets, and a re-unified world economy. . . . Hearden has mastered, as no one else has, the intricacies of U.S. policies and local issues in nearly every part of the world. . . . It will make a splash among historians. " —Frank Costigliola professor of history at the University of Connecticut

Patrick J. Hearden is an associate professor of history at Purdue University. His books include The Tragedy of Vietnam (HarperCollins, 1991) and Roosevelt Confronts Hitler: America's Entry into World War Two (Northern Illinois, 1982).

The book's strengths are an immense amount of research in U.S. records [and] a clear and direct writing style. . . . I know of no other work that gets the most important postwar planning in one place, sets up a context, and is based on this kind of research in American sources. [This book] should become a reference work for scholars." —Walter LaFeber, The Andrew and James Tisch Distinguished Professor of History at Cornell University"Hearden's book is the best in the field. [It] is impressively researched and is comprehensive in dealing with nearly every aspect of State Department wartime planning for the postwar world. . . . Hearden presents a well-documented account of the . . . drive for open doors, free markets, and a re-unified world economy. . . . Hearden has mastered, as no one else has, the intricacies of U.S. policies and local issues in nearly every part of the world. . . . It will make a splash among historians. " —Frank Costigliola professor of history at the University of Connecticut