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050 00 $aE807$b.G44 1995
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100 1 $aGellman, Irwin F.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94113773
245 10 $aSecret affairs :$bFranklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles /$cIrwin F. Gellman.
260 $aBaltimore, MD :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c1995.
300 $axvii, 499 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aThe 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.
520 8 $aThese 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 8 $aIn 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 $aGellman 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 $aHull never groomed a successor, and Welles kept his foreign assignations as classified as his sexual orientation.
600 10 $aRoosevelt, Franklin D.$q(Franklin Delano),$d1882-1945$xFriends and associates.
600 10 $aHull, Cordell,$d1871-1955.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86012032
600 10 $aWelles, Sumner,$d1892-1961.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50002952
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1933-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140096
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xDiplomatic history.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148402
852 00 $bglx$hE807$i.G44 1995