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Rendezvous With Destiny
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Author : Michael Fullilove
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-07-03
Rendezvous With Destiny written by Michael Fullilove and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-03 with History categories.
The remarkable untold story of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the five extraordinary men he used to pull America into World War II In the dark days between Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt sent five remarkable men on dramatic and dangerous missions to Europe. The missions were highly unorthodox and they confounded and infuriated diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic. Their importance is little understood to this day. In fact, they were crucial to the course of the Second World War. The envoys were magnificent, unforgettable characters. First off the mark was Sumner Welles, the chilly, patrician under secretary of state, later ruined by his sexual misdemeanors, who was dispatched by FDR on a tour of European capitals in the spring of 1940. In summer of that year, after the fall of France, William “Wild Bill” Donovan—war hero and future spymaster—visited a lonely United Kingdom at the president’s behest to determine whether she could hold out against the Nazis. Donovan’s report helped convince FDR that Britain was worth backing. After he won an unprecedented third term in November 1940, Roosevelt threw a lifeline to the United Kingdom in the form of Lend-Lease and dispatched three men to help secure it. Harry Hopkins, the frail social worker and presidential confidant, was sent to explain Lend-Lease to Winston Churchill. Averell Harriman, a handsome, ambitious railroad heir, served as FDR’s man in London, expediting Lend-Lease aid and romancing Churchill’s daughter-in-law. Roosevelt even put to work his rumpled, charismatic opponent in the 1940 presidential election, Wendell Willkie, whose visit lifted British morale and won wary Americans over to the cause. Finally, in the aftermath of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, Hopkins returned to London to confer with Churchill and traveled to Moscow to meet with Joseph Stalin. This final mission gave Roosevelt the confidence to bet on the Soviet Union. The envoys’ missions took them into the middle of the war and exposed them to the leading figures of the age. Taken together, they plot the arc of America’s trans¬formation from a divided and hesitant middle power into the global leader. At the center of everything, of course, was FDR himself, who moved his envoys around the globe with skill and élan. We often think of Harry S. Truman, George Marshall, Dean Acheson, and George F. Kennan as the authors of America’s global primacy in the second half of the twentieth century. But all their achievements were enabled by the earlier work of Roosevelt and his representatives, who took the United States into the war and, by defeating domestic isolationists and foreign enemies, into the world. In these two years, America turned. FDR and his envoys were responsible for the turn. Drawing on vast archival research, Rendezvous with Destiny is narrative history at its most delightful, stirring, and important.
Rendezvous With Destiny
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Author : Eric Frederick Goldman
language : en
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Release Date : 2001
Rendezvous With Destiny written by Eric Frederick Goldman and has been published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with United States categories.
A story of the wise and the shortsighted, the bold and the timid, the generous and the grasping men and women who have been the stuff of American reform.
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Author : Leonard Rapport
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
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Franklin D Roosevelt
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Author : Frank Freidel
language : en
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Release Date : 2009-11-29
Franklin D Roosevelt written by Frank Freidel and has been published by Back Bay Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The acclaimed one-volume biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, praised by Doris Kearns Goodwin as "brilliant...a magnificently readable saga."
Rendezvous With Destiny
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Author : Jim Janz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
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Author : Craig Shirley
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-04-08
Rendezvous With Destiny written by Craig Shirley and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Political Science categories.
“A first-rate work of insider history . . . A monumental accomplishment.” —National Review The election that changed everything: Craig Shirley’s masterful account of the 1980 presidential campaign reveals how a race judged “too close to call” as late as Election Day became a Reagan landslide—and altered the course of history. To write Rendezvous with Destiny, Shirley gained unprecedented access to 1980 campaign files and interviewed more than 150 insiders—from Reagan’s closest advisers and family members to Jimmy Carter himself. His gripping account follows Reagan’s unlikely path from his bitter defeat on the floor of the 1976 Republican convention, through his underreported “wilderness years,” through grueling primary fights in which he knocked out several Republican heavyweights, through an often-nasty general election campaign complicated by the presence of a third-party candidate (not to mention the looming shadow of Ted Kennedy), to Reagan’s astounding victory on Election Night in 1980. Shirley’s years of intensive research have enabled him to relate countless untold stories—including, at long last, the solution to one of the most enduring mysteries in politics: just how Reagan’s campaign got hold of Carter’s debate briefing books.
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Author : ERIC F. GOLDMAN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
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Author : Franklin Delano Roosevelt
language : en
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-03
Rendezvous With Destiny written by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and has been published by Literary Licensing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03 with categories.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 19??
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A Convincing Rendezvous With Destiny
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Author : Essa Bokarr Sey
language : en
Publisher: America Star Books
Release Date : 2010-07
A Convincing Rendezvous With Destiny written by Essa Bokarr Sey and has been published by America Star Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.