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July 26, 2013

Michael Fullilove: FDR the Greatest Statesman of the Twentieth Century (INTERVIEW)

by Robin Lindley

Historian Dr. Michael Fullilove recounts how Roosevelt’s diplomacy relied on personal representatives from 1940 until the Pearl Harbor attack in his new book Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World.