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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Gellman, Irwin F, author Secret Affairs Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles / Irwin F. Gellman. Johns Hopkins University Press 1 online resource (1 online resource (xvii, 499 pages :) illustrations) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press, 1995 Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-469) and index. 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. Hull never groomed a successor, and Welles kept his foreign assignations as classified as his sexual orientation. 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. 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. 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. 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. Description based on print version record. English Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961. Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Friends and associates. History of the Americas bicssc History of the Americas 1-4214-3137-8 1-4214-3028-2 |
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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. |
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