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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.
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.
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.
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.
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Diplomatic history, Friends and associates, World War, 1939-1945, Foreign relations, Roosevelt, franklin d. (franklin delano), 1882-1945, Hull, cordell, 1871-1955, United states, foreign relations, 1933-1945, World war, 1939-1945, diplomatic history, Welles, sumner, 1892-1961Places
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Secret affairs: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles
1995, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
0801850835 9780801850837
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-469) and index.
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