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Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust
by Robert N. Rosen (Foreword: Gerhard Weinberg) (Afterword: Alan M. Dershowitz)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Basic Books (2007-05-06)
ISBN: 1560259957
EAN: 9781560259954
Dewy Decimal #: 940
Paperback: 688 pages
SKU: 070730012
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: This copy is in excellent condition. Nice, clean tight text and spine. No markings, highlights, underlining, tears, creases. No dust jacket. Soft cover is clean with about 2 tiny scratches to front and a few to the back. Otherwise, light shelf/edge wear. A very interesting copy worth having at an affordable price. (H 19)
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
A rigorously researched narrative of the record of the Roosevelt Administration.
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Customer Reviews
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finally, a second look at FDR's policies
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-03-06
We have heard the criticisms of FDR's policy towards the holocaust all too often over the last several decades. They have ranged from benign neglect on his part, to near complicity. This has left many people, myself included, with an uncomfortable feeling about FDR for many years. I'm halfway through Robert Rosen's book, and I now think FDR completely undeserving of the negative comments of other authors on this matter. In fact, I feel as if I've been seriously mislead by previous authors, who seem to have been out to make a quick buck by stirring up negative controversy. Rosen's book contains numerous examples of how previous authors misrepresented events regarding U. S. immigration policy, and the plight of Jewish refugees from the Third Reich. Although it's a worthwhile read, the editing of the book is a bit choppy, with some repetition in different sections. The subject is very important, and I hope it gets discussed on Book TV. I discovered Rosen's book while ordering some of Gerhard Weinberg's books on World War II. If you haven't read Weinberg's stuff, and you're a WWII buff, be prepared for some real surprises, and lots of myth debunking.
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Book is probably among the three most important books on Franklin Roosevelt ever written!
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-06-25
1 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a must read for those who want to understand about his relations to Jews during the holocaust years. Read my amapedia review below!
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Best book on FDR and the Holocaust
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-10-12
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Having read this book in hardcover, when it was released, and then after reading the Wyman Institute's largely pathetic attacks on the book, I remain convinced that Rosen has done this nation a service in protecting and defending FDR from attacks from these narrow minded Holocaust historians who have defamed FDR over the past few decades on the issue of the American response to the European Holocaust against Jews.
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Memo to Amanda Smythe
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-09-07
6 out of 25 customers found this reveiw helpful
In going over the reviews in order to consider whether I should get this book, I read yours in which you claim to know a great deal about military history. You say there was no point in bombing railroad tracks as they can easily be repaired. True. The way you knock out a rail line is by bombing its bridges.
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An honest historically accurate book
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-05-13
21 out of 33 customers found this reveiw helpful
I completely disagree with the last comment. The book does not "omit" anything that actually happened. It does however "omit" the fantasies that have been propagated by historians like David S. Wyman. In his book "The Abandonment of the Jews" he falsifies many historical events in order to further his own agenda.
What Rosen has done is eliminate the dramatics from the actual historical event. Yes, obviously the Holocaust was a tragic event, but victimizing an entire race, while criminalizing the leaders is a very black and white way to approach the subject.
I would also like to note, that this book is written in a very scholarly manner. The average reader would not pick this book up so clearly this book was not written in hopes of "lucrative" gains.
The author also tends to grasp military history which many historians tend to neglect. This is clear in the sense that many authors ask why the US did not bomb the rail road tracks leading to Auschwitz. Anyone who understands military history knows the uselessness of those efforts at the time, the technology simply was not there. On top of that the German army could certainly fix a railroad track! So many books on the holocaust are critical about things that would never have been done.
Thank you to Rosen for setting the record straight. This is truly a masterpiece of the highest caliber of research. There is no agenda for this book, it is a clear representation of historical fact. The book was greatly needed, and hopefully will find success.
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