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100 1  $a Fullilove, Michael, $d 1972- $e author.
245 10 $a Rendezvous with destiny : $b how Franklin D. Roosevelt and five extraordinary men took America into the War and into the world / $c Michael Fullilove.
264  1 $a New York, New York : $b The Penguin Press, $c 2013.
300    $a 468 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-454) and index.
505 0  $a 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.
520    $a 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.
600 10 $a Roosevelt, Franklin D. $q (Franklin Delano), $d 1882-1945.
600 10 $a Roosevelt, Franklin D. $q (Franklin Delano), $d 1882-1945 $x Friends and associates.
600 10 $a Welles, Sumner, $d 1892-1961.
600 10 $a Donovan, William J. $q (William Joseph), $d 1883-1959.
600 10 $a Hopkins, Harry Lloyd. $d 1890-1946.
600 10 $a Willkie, Wendell L. $q (Wendell Lewis), $d 1892-1944.
600 10 $a Harriman, W. Averell $q (William Averell), $d 1891-1986.
651  0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1933-1945.
650  0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Diplomatic history.
650  0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z United States.
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