Table of Contents:
  • The making of a Wilsonian internationalist : early life and career, 1892-1937
  • Under Secretary of State : the Welles plan and reorganizing the Department, 1937-1938
  • Creating war and peace aims : the Welles mission, the Atlantic Charter, and the origins of postwar planning, 1939-1941
  • Creating a new league : the postwar planning process, 1941-1943
  • The quest for a new world order : postwar planning and the great powers, 1942-1943
  • The war within the war : Sumner Welles and American anti-colonialism, 1941-1943
  • The limits of universalism : American postwar planning for Eastern Europe and the USSR, 1941-1943
  • Resignation.