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Rendezvous With Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World
Written by Michael Fullilove
Narrated by Andrew Garman
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Michael Fullilove's work on global affairs has appeared in major publications such as the New York Times. In Rendezvous with Destiny, Fullilove examines the exceptional men at the heart of America's transformation into a global power.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Michael Fullilove is an Australian foreign policy thinker and writer. In Rendezvous with Destiny, Fullilove recounts the missions of five prominent Americans sent abroad by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as his personal envoys between February 1940 and September 1941. During that time, FDR worked to ease a mostly isolationist America into a posture of support for Britain (and, to a much lesser extent, in support of the Soviet Union as well, at least in its opposition to Nazi Germany). The book will be most useful to three audiences: serious students of US diplomacy who are interested in the lessons to be drawn from FDR's use of personal envoys; graduate students in related fields who need a quick take on US diplomacy in the months of Lend-Lease; and more generally, World War II buffs. The last category is probably the largest in absolute number of readers, and they will enjoy Fullilove's skill at sketching personalities, and his tour of romantic narrative moments: Averrell Harriman and Pamela Churchill beginning an affair during a night of heavy bombing in London; FDR and Winston Churchill celebrating the divine service on board the HMS Prince of Wales during the two leaders' first summit together. Readers in the first two categories can save a good bit of time by merely reading the first and last few pages of each chapter, in which Fullilove offers his assessment of the impacts of FDR's personal diplomacy.