{"product_id":"secret-affairs-9781421431369","title":"Secret Affairs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1995. 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 was as closely guarded a state secret as his wife's Jewish ancestry. The undersecretary was a pompous and aloof man who married three times but, when intoxicated, preferred sex with railroad porters, shoeshine boys, and cabdrivers. These three legendary figuresFranklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Wellesnot only concealed such secrets for more than a decade but did so while directing United States foreign policy during some of the most perilous events in the nation's history. Irwin Gellman brings to light startling new information about the intrigues, deceptions, and behind-the-scenes power struggles that influenced America's role in World War II and left their\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGellman's research is solid, as is his grasp of both the detail and the outlines of American foreign policy in the 1930s and World War II years.\u003cbr\u003e—Warren F. Kimball, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe thoroughness with which Gellman deconstructs Hull . . . can be appreciated only by those of us old enough to recall Hull's overriding popularity . . . Gellman has combined meticulous research with Washington gossip for a fascinating piece of history.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCordell Hull seemed the safest of bets . . . just about right, come to think of it, for a really solid burst of revisionist history. This he has now got, and in heaping measure, from Irwin F. Gellman.\u003cbr\u003e—Christopher Hitchens, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eDramatis Personae \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Chief Sets the Tone \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Enter Hull \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Welles in Cuba \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Balance of the First Term \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Bloodiest Bureaucratic Battle\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Reorganizing the Department\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Welles Mission\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Sphinx, Hull, and the Others\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. An Incredible Set of Circumstances\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Provoking War \u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Hull Loses Control \u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Working for Victory\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Ruining Welles\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Resi gnation \u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Hull's Last Year \u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Roosevelt's Last Months\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. Those Who Survived\u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408130974039,"sku":"9781421431369","price":46.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421431369.jpg?v=1730501697","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/secret-affairs-9781421431369","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}