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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Main Authors:Gellman, Irwin F.
Formato: Livro
Idioma:English
Publicado em:Baltimore, Md. [u.a.] : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995
Assuntos:
USA
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Resumo: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
Descrição Física:XVII, 499 S. Ill
ISBN:0801850835