Secret Affairs : Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles / / Irwin F. Gellman.
Hull never groomed a successor, and Welles kept his foreign assignations as classified as his sexual orientation.
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Notes: | Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press, 1995 |
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505 | 0 | |a The chief sets the tone -- Enter Hull -- Welles in Cuba -- The balance of the first term -- The bloodiest bureaucratic battle -- Reorganizing the department -- The Welles mission -- The sphinx, Hull, and the others -- An incredible set of circumstances -- Provoking war -- Hull loses control -- Working for victory -- Ruining Welles -- Resignation -- Hull's last year -- Roosevelt's last months -- Those who survived. | |
520 | 8 | |a Hull never groomed a successor, and Welles kept his foreign assignations as classified as his sexual orientation. | |
520 | 8 | |a Gellman concludes that although Roosevelt, Hull, and Welles usually agreed on foreign policy matters, the events that molded each man's character remained a mystery to others. Their failure to cope with their secret affairs - to subordinate their personal concerns to the higher good of the nation - eventually destroyed much of what they hoped would be their legacy. Roosevelt never explained his objectives to Vice-President Harry Truman or anyone else. | |
520 | 8 | |a In Secret Affairs Irwin Gellman brings to light startling new information about the intrigues, deceptions, and behind-the-scenes power struggles that influenced America's role in World War II and left their mark on world events - for good or ill - in the half-century that followed. | |
520 | 8 | |a These three legendary figures - Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles - not only concealed such secrets for more than a decade but did so while directing U.S. foreign policy during some of the most perilous events in the nation's history. | |
520 | |a The president was paralyzed from the waist down, but concealed the extent of his disability from a public that was never permitted to see him in a wheelchair. The secretary of state was old and frail, debilitated by a highly contagious and usually fatal disease that was as closely guarded a state secret as his wife's Jewish ancestry. The under secretary was a pompous and aloof man who married three times but, when intoxicated, preferred sex with railroad porters, shoeshine boys, and cabdrivers. | ||
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600 | 1 | 1 | |a Hull, Cordell, |d 1871-1955. |
600 | 1 | 1 | |a Roosevelt, Franklin D. |q (Franklin Delano), |d 1882-1945 |x Friends and associates. |
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