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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2014Description: 468 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143125624
  • 0143125621
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E806 .F85 2014
Contents:
Prologue : September 1939 -- 1. "A one-man American mission of curiosity : Sumner Welles in Rome, Berlin, Paris, and London, February-March 1940 -- 2. "A sensible colonel house" : Bill Donovan in London, July-August 1940 -- 3. "History's foremost marriage broker" : Harry Hopkins in London, January-February 1941 -- 4. "Sail on, oh Ship of State" : Wendell Willkie in London and Dublin, January-February 1941 -- 5. "To keep the British Isles afloat" : Averell Harriman in London, Africa, and the Middle East, March-July 1941 -- 6. "Mister Hurry Upkins" : Harry Hopkins in London, July 1941 -- 7. "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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-454) and index.

Prologue : September 1939 -- 1. "A one-man American mission of curiosity : Sumner Welles in Rome, Berlin, Paris, and London, February-March 1940 -- 2. "A sensible colonel house" : Bill Donovan in London, July-August 1940 -- 3. "History's foremost marriage broker" : Harry Hopkins in London, January-February 1941 -- 4. "Sail on, oh Ship of State" : Wendell Willkie in London and Dublin, January-February 1941 -- 5. "To keep the British Isles afloat" : Averell Harriman in London, Africa, and the Middle East, March-July 1941 -- 6. "Mister Hurry Upkins" : Harry Hopkins in London, July 1941 -- 7. "Uncle Joe's favorite" : Harry Hopkins in Moscow and at Placentia Bay, July-august 1941 -- Epilogue : December 1941.

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.