William Edward Dodd

William Edward Dodd
William Edward Dodd was an American historian and diplomat, best known for his role as the U.S. ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937 during Adolf Hitler's rise to power. A professor of history, Dodd specialized in the American Civil War and published works like "The Cotton Kingdom" and "Woodrow Wilson and His Work." His ambassadorship in Nazi Germany, documented in "Ambassador Dodd's Diary," highlighted his growing alarm over Hitler’s regime and his frustration with both the U.S. government and Germany. Dodd’s experiences were later made famous in the book "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson.

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PREFACE The purpose of this volume is to show the action and reaction of the most important social, economic, political, and personal forces that have entered into the make-up of the United States as a nation. The primary assumption of the author is that the people of this country did not compose a nation until after the close of the Civil War in 1865. Of scarcely less importance is the fact that the... more...

CHAPTER I THE CIVIL WAR The military successes of the United States in its Civil War maintained the Union, but entailed readjustments in politics, finance, and business that shifted the direction of public affairs for many years. In the eyes of contemporaries these changes were obscured by the vivid scenes of the battlefield, whose intense impressions were not forgotten for a generation. It seemed as... more...