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Book

The Washington war : FDR's inner circle and the politics of power that won World War II

Author

Jim Lacey

Call Number

  • 973.917 L131 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Bantam Books, [2019]

Physical Description

xxii, 567 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"A Team of Rivals for World War II, here is the inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged war in the corridors of Washington D.C. to secure ultimate victory on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific. Faced with the unprecedented challenges posed by a global war against entrenched and implacable totalitarian forces, Franklin Delano Roosevelt surrounded himself with a colorful group of strong-minded counselors, including Army Chief of Staff George Marshall, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, power broker James Byrnes, Chief of Naval Operations Ernest King, the ubiquitous Harry Hopkins, and many others. Given these forceful personalities and their equal dedication to the war effort, vicious clashes and Machiavellian maneuvering were inevitable. The outcome at many critical junctures turned on a dime. With unprecedented scope and intimacy, based on exhaustive research and newly discovered sources, The Washington War by renowned military historian James Lacey delivers fresh insights into FDR's innermost circles--and the fascinating behind-the-scenes machinations and power plays that won the greatest war in history"--

Contents

  • Inching toward war
  • Wars are won in the details
  • Roosevelt finds a war consigliere
  • Early maneuvers
  • Hot dogs at Hyde Park
  • First salvos
  • The State Department at war ... with itself
  • Blitzkrieg
  • Roosevelt's general
  • A reluctant industrial complex
  • The sphinx
  • Republicans seize the War Department
  • Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars
  • Business gets its field marshals
  • Bankrolling Britain
  • Colors become rainbows
  • Hamlet finds an admiral
  • Drang Nach Osten
  • Rendezvous at sea
  • Production battles
  • War in the Pacific
  • A city at war
  • Churchill comes to town
  • Arcadia conference
  • Bureaucratic road kill
  • A bitter season
  • Joint chiefs
  • Striking back
  • Deserting the bear
  • Stopping the tide
  • On track
  • The great feasibility dispute
  • No rubber, no war
  • Torch
  • New hands at the helm
  • Byrnes cast upon troubled waters
  • A non-united front
  • Casablanca
  • Man-and woman-power
  • The Jewish question
  • Auld lang syne
  • Storm clouds over the alliance
  • Showdown in Quebec
  • The Big-3 in Tehran
  • The grind
  • Election 1944
  • surveying the field
  • Pacific overtures
  • The Morgenthau Plan
  • The champ
  • Yalta and the end.

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