FDR's Funeral Train

ISBN-13: 9780230108035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 244 str.

Robert Klara

Opis

In April 1945, the funeral traincarrying the body of Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on a three-day, thousand-mile odyssey through nine states before reaching the president'shome where he was buried. Many whowould 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 lookinside 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 husband's mistress was in the room when he died, and the entirefamily ofincoming president Harry S Truman. The thrilling story of what took place behind the Pullman shades, where women whispered and men tossed back highballs, has never been told. On the occasion of the sixty-fifth anniversary of FDR's 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

Spis treści

Prologue
Pine Mountain
The Mainline
The West Hall
Twelve Long Hours
The Train of Secrets
Car No.3
Where the Sundial Stands
Homeward
"We do not fear the future"
Aftermath

O autorze

ROBERT KLARA is an Editor and Writer. His work has appeared in The New York Times , the New York Daily News , American Heritage , New Jersey Monthly , and The Christian Science Monitor . Klara has been a Staff Editor for numerous magazines, including Town & Country and Architecture , and has also worked as a Researcher for legendary author Gay Talese. He lives in New York City, USA