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

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Fullilove, Michael, 1972-

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The Penguin Press

Publication Date

2013.

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English

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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.

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

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Fullilove, Michael Author
Garman, Andrew Reader

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9781594204357
9781470364038

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