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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Fullilove, Michael, 1972-     Subjects     Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.     Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Friends and associates.     Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961.     Donovan, William J. (William Joseph), 1883-1959.     Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946.     Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.     Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.     World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.     United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Fullilove, Michael, 1972-       by title:      Rendezvous with dest...       by call number:      973.917 F971r     Search the Web     Fullilove, Michael, 1972-     Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.     Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Friends and associates.     Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961.     Donovan, William J. (William Joseph), 1883-1959.     Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946.     Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.     Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.     World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.     United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945.       MARC Display

Rendezvous with destiny : how Franklin D. Roosevelt and five extraordinary men took America into the war and into the world / Michael Fullilove. by Fullilove, Michael, 1972- The Penguin Press, 2013. Call #: 973.917 F971r Subjects Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.   Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Friends and associates.   Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961.   Donovan, William J. (William Joseph), 1883-1959.   Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946.   Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.   Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.   World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.   United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945. ISBN:  9781594204357 (hc.) Description:  468 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-454) and index. Contents:  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. 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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 973.917 F971r Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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