D. F. Fleming Explained

Denna Frank Fleming (1893–1980) was an American historian and political scientist, who is best known for his work The Cold War and Its Origins.

Early life and education

He was born in Paris, Illinois, on March 25, 1893, the son of Albert and Eleanor McCormick Fleming.^[1] He received his MA and PhD from the University of Illinois.^[2]

For almost eight years, between 1939 and 1947, Fleming hosted a weekly radio show on WSM, where he covered current events and politics.^[3] The scripts for these broadcasts were later compiled into Fleming's 1944 book While America Slept.^[4]

Works

• The Treaty Veto of the American Senate, 1930
• The United States and the League of Nations, 1918-1920, 1932
• The United States and World Organization, 1920-1933, 1938
• Can We Win the Peace, 1943
• While America Slept, 1944
• The United States and the World Court, 1945
• The Cold War and Its Origins, Vol I, 1917-1950, 1961
• The Cold War and Its Origins, Vol II, 1950-1960, 1961
• The Origins and Legacies of World War I, 1968
• America's role in Asia, 1969
• The Issues of Survival, 1972

External links

• Denna Frank Fleming Papershttps://web.archive.org/web/20100615225157/http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/flemingd.shtml
  • Chronology (of his life)https://web.archive.org/web/20100619174444/http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/flemingd_chrono.shtml
• Big Wars and Small; New York Review of Bookshttp://www.nybooks.com/articles/11367
• Origin of the Cold War, Review by Alan Milchman https://www.mises.org/journals/lar/pdfs/1_1/1_1_4.pdf

Notes and References

1. Book: Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 89th Congress, First Session. . United States Government Printing Office . 1965 . 111, Part 5 . Washington D.C. . 6202.
2. Book: Fleming, Denna Frank . Does Deterrence Deter? A Study and Commentary . American Friends Service Committee . 1962 . Philadelphia . 2.
3. Book: Bucklin, Steven J. . Realism and American Foreign Policy: Wilsonians and the Kennan-Morgenthau Thesis . The University of Michigan . 2001 . 978-0-275-96737-6 . 55.
4. Wollbert . Robert Gale . July 1, 1944 . While America Slept . Foreign Affairs . November 16, 2023.