Secret Affairs : Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles /
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was paralyzed from the waist down, but he concealed the extent of his disability from a public that was never permitted to see him in a wheelchair. FDR's Secretary of State was old and frail, debilitated by a highly contagious and usually fatal disease that w...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- The chief sets the tone
- Enter Hull
- Welles in Cuba
- The balance of the first term
- The bloodiest bureaucratic battle
- Reorganizing the department
- The Welles mission
- The sphinx, Hull, and the others
- An incredible set of circumstances
- Provoking war
- Hull loses control
- Working for victory
- Ruining Welles
- Resignation
- Hull's last year
- Roosevelt's last months
- Those who survived.