At the President's Pleasure : FDR's Leadership of Wartime Sino-US Relations.

Intro -- At the President's Pleasure: FDR's Leadership of Wartime Sino-US Relations -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Leaders and Presidents -- Introduction -- Leadership Theory -- Presidents and Leadership Theory -- Conclusion -- 2: Hail to the Chief: FDR's Leadership Style -- Introduction -- FDR's Early Life and First Terms -- FDR's Centralization of Power and the State Department -- FDR's Centralization of Power and the War Department -- FDR, Public Opinion, and His Inconsistency -- Conclusion -- 3 "The Most Important Factor in the Whole East": FDR's Vision for Sino-us Relations -- Introduction -- The United States' Interests in China -- FDR's China Vision in Context -- Conclusion -- 4 A Vision without a Plan: FDR's Wartime China Policies -- Introduction -- The United Nations Organization -- Kuomintang-Communist Relations -- Lend-Lease and Military Aid to China -- Extraterritoriality -- Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Laws -- Bureaucratic Leadership Theory and FDR -- Conclusion -- 5: "The Deckhand Diplomat": Ambassador Gauss and General Stilwell in China -- Introduction -- The Ambassador and His Role -- The Ambassador and the State Department -- General Stilwell and His Role -- Stilwell and the War Department -- Stilwell and Gauss in Competition -- Failure in China -- Organizational Leadership Theory and FDR -- Conclusion -- 6: Washington Mandarins: FDR's Personal Representatives to China -- Introduction -- US Diplomats and Envoys to China -- Chinese Diplomats and Envoys -- Public Opinion -- Foreign Policy Leadership Theory and FDR -- Conclusion -- 7: Rubberlegs, the Peanut and the Limeys: FDR's Summit Diplomacy -- Introduction -- The Exclusion of the State Department -- Chinese Exclusion from Military Strategy -- Chinese Involvement in Post-war Planning -- The Impact of FDR's Leadership Style.

James Barber's Leadership Theory and FDR -- Conclusion -- 8: The Changing of the Guard -- Introduction -- The State Department after Hull -- China after Stilwell and Gauss -- The Presidency after Roosevelt -- US Post-war China Policy -- Changes in Institutional Relations -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

At the President's Pleasure re-examines Franklin Roosevelt's leadership of US diplomacy with China in World War II using new perspectives on aspects of Sino-US relations.

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