TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gellman,Irwin F
ED  - Mazal Holocaust Collection.
ED  - Project Muse.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Secret Affairs: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles 
SN  - 9781421430287
AV  - E807 .G44 1995
U1  - B 20
KW  - Welles, Sumner,
KW  - Hull, Cordell,
KW  - Roosevelt, Franklin D.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - lcgft
KW  - local
N1  - Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press, 1995; Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-469) and index; 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; Open Access
N2  - Hull never groomed a successor, and Welles kept his foreign assignations as classified as his sexual orientation; Gellman concludes that although Roosevelt, Hull, and Welles usually agreed on foreign policy matters, the events that molded each man's character remained a mystery to others. Their failure to cope with their secret affairs - to subordinate their personal concerns to the higher good of the nation - eventually destroyed much of what they hoped would be their legacy. Roosevelt never explained his objectives to Vice-President Harry Truman or anyone else; In Secret Affairs 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 mark on world events - for good or ill - in the half-century that followed; These three legendary figures - Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles - not only concealed such secrets for more than a decade but did so while directing U.S. foreign policy during some of the most perilous events in the nation's history; The president was paralyzed from the waist down, but concealed the extent of his disability from a public that was never permitted to see him in a wheelchair. The 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 under secretary was a pompous and aloof man who married three times but, when intoxicated, preferred sex with railroad porters, shoeshine boys, and cabdrivers
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/69482/
ER  -