The President, the cousin he was having an affair with, the cousin he was married to, and her girlfriend
Michael Rogin, 21 September 1995
Secret Affairs: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles
by Irwin Gellman.
Johns Hopkins, 499 pp., $29.95, April 1995,0 8018 5083 5 Show More
by Irwin Gellman.
Johns Hopkins, 499 pp., $29.95, April 1995,
Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley
edited by Geoffrey Ward.
Houghton Mifflin, 444 pp., $24.95, April 1995,0 395 66080 7 Show More
edited by Geoffrey Ward.
Houghton Mifflin, 444 pp., $24.95, April 1995,
No Ordinary Time. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War Two
by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Simon and Schuster, 759 pp., £18, June 1995,0 671 64240 5 Show More
by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Simon and Schuster, 759 pp., £18, June 1995,
“... State Department counsel. The political significance of the Welles-Hull debacle lies, for Irving Gellman, in FDR’s ‘divisive management style’, his habit of under-cutting his aides by being unable to choose one against the other. ‘You know I am a juggler, and I never let my right hand know what my left hand does,’ the President explained to ... ”
