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Steven Casey is reader in international history at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany (2001), and Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion (2008), which won the 2010 Truman Book Award. He is currently completing a new book, When Soldiers Fall: How Americans have Debated Combat Losses from World War I to Afghanistan, to be published by Oxford University Press.
He was accused of ceding too much ground to allies in Libya, but this week’s events show he’s FDR’s heir.
