Rendezvous with destiny
Subtitle: how Franklin D. Roosevelt and five extraordinary men took America into the War and into the world
By: Michael Fullilove
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781594204357
Subjects: Diplomatic history; Friends and associates; World War, 1939-1945; Foreign relations
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-454) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : September 1939; title: "A one-man American mission of curiosity" : Sumner Welles in Rome, Berlin, Paris and London, February-March 1940; title: "A sensible Colonel House" : Bill Donovan in London, July-August 1940; title: "History's foremost marriage broker" : Harry Hopkins in London, January-February 1941; title: "Sail on, oh ship of state!" : Wendell Willkie in London and Dublin, January-February 1941; title: "To keep the British Isles afloat" : Averell Harriman in London, Africa, and the Middle East, March-July 1941; title: "Mister Hurry Upkins" : Harry Hopkins in London, July 1941; title: "Uncle Joe's favorite" : Harry Hopkins in Moscow and at Placentia Bay, July-August 1941; title: Epilogue : December 1941.