FDR and the Creation of the U.N.

Prize-winning historians Hoopes and Brinkley tell the engrossing story of the American role in the formation of the United Nations and provide an important historical perspective on the organization`s fifty-year history of peacekeeping efforts. They show how President Franklin D. Roosevelt, disenchanted with the failed League of Nations and determined to break the cycle of ever more destructive wars, worked with American and foreign leaders and became the driving force behind the creation of the U. N.