{"product_id":"peace-in-their-time-the-origins-of-the-kellogg-briand-pact-9780393004915","title":"Peace in Their Time: The Origins of the Kellogg-Briand Pact","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter World War I, private peace groups proliferated and rapidly became a significant force in American politics. These groups' activities were regarded by the Harding and Coolidge administrations as a bungling interference with the regular conduct of diplomacy. Ultimately, however, President Coolidge yielded to domestic pressure and the efforts of French foreign minister Aristide Briand to conclude a peace treaty. A protracted series of negotiations between the United States and France resulted in the multilateral Kellogg-Briand Pact, the treaty to \"outlaw war.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Kellogg-Briand Pact, Mr. Ferrell writes, was the peculiar result of some very shrewd diplomacy and some very unsophisticated popular enthusiasm for peace. In analyzing the forces that produced the treaty, \u003cem\u003ePeace in Their Time\u003c\/em\u003e reveals significant aspects of American foreign policy in the interwar period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFerrell, Robert H.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Robert H. Ferrell was a Professor of History at Indiana University, and is internationally recognized as a scholar and teacher of U.S. Foreign Relations and the United States Presidency, especially the life of Harry S Truman. He was author or editor of more than 60 history books over his lifetime. He received a master's degree and a Ph.D. at Yale University and won Yale's John Addison Porter Prize for his dissertation \u003cem\u003eThe United States and the Origins of the Kellogg-Briand Pact\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844421128466,"sku":"9780393004915","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_87e99fc3-4d84-4145-a530-62ab47d90a40.jpg?v=1737319801","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/peace-in-their-time-the-origins-of-the-kellogg-briand-pact-9780393004915","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}