Remapping America: Continentalism, Globalism, and the Rise of the Atlantic Community, 1939–1949

The early months of 1941 were crucial both for the policies that led to the US intervention in World War II and for the discursive strategies that advocated such intervention among policy makers and the general public alike. Not only would Congress pass the Lend-Lease legislation in March, devised by President Roosevelt to support Britain’s war effort, but one month later, Henry Luce’s well-known “American Century” editorial in Life magazine would also provide American internationalism with a resounding call to arms.