FDRs Funeral Train : A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance

English

ISBN: 0230108032

EAN: 9780230108035

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads Of State/Biography & Autobiography / Political/Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Military & Wars/History / Military / World War Ii/Travel / Rail Travel/Social Science / Death & Dying/History / United States / 20Th Century/

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release Date: 06/22/2011

Synopsis: In April 1945, the funeral train& carrying the body of Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on a three-day, thousand-mile odyssey through nine states before reaching the presidents& home where he was buried. Many who& would recall the journey later would agree it was a foolhardy idea to start with--putting every important elected figure in Washington on a single train during the biggest war in history. For the American people, of course, the funeral train was just that--the train bearing the body of deceased FDR. It passed with darkened windows; few gave thought to what might be happening aboard. A closer look& inside the train, however,& would reveal a Soviet spy about to leak a state secret, a newly widowed Eleanor Roosevelt, who just found out that her husbands mistress was in the room when he died, and the entire& family of& incoming president Harry S Truman. The thrilling story of what took place behind the Pullman shades, where women whispered andmen tossed back highballs, has never been told. On the occasion of the sixty-fifth anniversary of FDRs death, Klara chronicles the action-packed threeiday train ride during which, among other things, Truman hammered out the policies that would galvanize a country in mourning and win the Second World War.

FDRs Funeral Train : A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.74 inches

Width: 6.15 inches

Length: 9.18 inches

Weight: 10.58 oz

Pages: 272