Secret Affairs Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles

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Tác giả: Irwin F Gellman

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-1421430287

ISBN-13: 978-1421431376

Ký hiệu phân loại: 973.9170922 1901

Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 online resource xvii, 499 pages) : , illustrations)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 196335

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.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.Hull never groomed a successor, and Welles kept his foreign assignations as classified as his sexual orientation.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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-469) and index.
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