Rendezvous With Destiny : : how Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary men Took America Into the War and Into the World
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Prologue : September 1939 -- "A one-man American mission of curiosity" : Sumner Welles in Rome, Berlin, Paris and London, February-March 1940 -- "A sensible Colonel House" : Bill Donovan in London, July-August 1940 -- "History's foremost marriage broker" : Harry Hopkins in London, January-February 1941 -- "Sail on, oh ship of state!" : Wendell Willkie in London and Dublin, January-February 1941 -- "To keep the British Isles afloat" : Averell Harriman in London, Africa, and the Middle East, March-July 1941 -- "Mister Hurry Upkins" : Harry Hopkins in London, July 1941 -- "Uncle Joe's favorite" : Harry Hopkins in Moscow and at Placentia Bay, July-August 1941 -- Epilogue : December 1941.
Fullilove demonstrates that America's global primacy in the second half of the twentieth century was enabled by the earlier work of Roosevelt and his five extraordinary representatives from 1939-1941. Together these men and their president took the United States into the war and, by defeating domestic isolationists and foreign enemies, into the world.
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PUBLISHED
New York, New York : The Penguin Press, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 468 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594204357
1594204357
SUBJECTS
Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- 1882-1945.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- 1882-1945 -- Friends and associates.
Welles, Sumner, -- 1892-1961.
Donovan, William J. -- 1883-1959.
Hopkins, Harry L. -- 1890-1946.
Willkie, Wendell L. -- 1892-1944.
Harriman, W. Averell -- 1891-1986.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.
World War, 1939-1945.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945.