Introduction; E.J.Marolda No Talent for Subordination: FDR and Josephus Daniels; K.S.Davis FDR at War, 1913-1921; D.Trask Josephus Daniels, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Reinvention of the Naval Enlisted Man; R.H.Spector Making It Easy for Him: The Imperial Japanese Navy and Franklin D. Roosevelt to Pearl Harbor; M.A.Barnhart Franklin Roosevelt and Naval Strategy, 1933-1941; J.G.Utley The Evolution of the U.S. Fleet, 1933-1941: How the President Mattered; T.C.Hone FDR and the Admirals: Strategy and Statecraft; W.Heinrichs Roosevelt and Churchill and the Fight for Victory and Stability; H.D.Langley Roosevelt and Leahy: The Orchestration of Global Strategy; P.L.Miles Roosevelt and Strategy in the Pacific; T.B.Buell Roosevelt and King: The War in the Atlantic and European Theaters; J.G.Barlow About the Authors Index

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a lifelong love for the United States Navy. Inspired as a youth by the US Fleet's dramatic impact on the global stage, and its use overseas by his illustrious cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin quite naturally focused his eyes on the sea. FDR and the US Navy presents the work of prominent biographers and historians who analyzed Franklin D. Roosevelt's long, close, and eventful association with the United States Navy, in war and peace, from the turn of the century to the end of World War II. The contributors show how as President during the 1930s, FDR endeavoured with naval leaders, not always successfully, to build a combat-capable fleet and to deter the aggressor nations of Europe and Asia. The essays argue that one of Franklin Roosevelt's greatest achievements was his direction as Commander in Chief of the US Navy and the other American armed forces during World War II, when the very survival of the nation was at stake. This book is the product of a day-long conference, entitled 'Franklin D. Roosevelt and the US Navy' that was held on October 22, 1996 at the US Navy Memorial Foundation's Heritage Center on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. It is both a powerful tribute and an important historical work on FDR.

EDWARD J. MAROLDA is the Senior Historian of the Naval Historical Center. He is the author of numerous books.