Secret affairs : Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles / Irwin F. Gellman
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 se...
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| Autores principales: | Gellman, Irwin F. |
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
| Publicado: | Baltimore, Md. [u.a.] : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995 |
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| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Descripción Física: | XVII, 499 S. Ill |
| ISBN: | 0801850835 |
