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Author:

Fullilove, Michael, 1972- author.

Title:

Rendezvous with destiny : how Franklin D. Roosevelt and five extraordinary men took America into the War and into the world / Michael Fullilove.

Publisher:

The Penguin Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

468 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

Roosevelt, Franklin D.--(Franklin Delano),--1882-1945.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.--(Franklin Delano),--1882-1945--Friends and associates.
Welles, Sumner,--1892-1961.
Donovan, William J.--(William Joseph),--1883-1959.
Hopkins, Harry Lloyd.--1890-1946.
Willkie, Wendell L.--(Wendell Lewis),--1892-1944.
Harriman, W. Averell--(William Averell),--1891-1986.
United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.
World War, 1939-1945--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-454) and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1594204357 (hardcover)
9781594204357 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2012047003

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