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Get the Summary of David McKean's Watching Darkness Fall in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
The day after his inauguration, President Roosevelt delivered a speech to a crowd of thousands in front of the Capitol. While he did not use the phrase war-time presidency, he did ask Congress to approve his plan for a domestic recovery program.
The three men who would become the most important advisers to President Franklin...
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"A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentions As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the U.S. Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy nor his chateau, an eighteenth Renaissance manse with...
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