Canadian Journal of History, April 1st, 1993
James Forrestal lived the American dream as both triumph and tragedy. Born in 1892, a small-town Irish-Catholic boy eager for success, be made his way from Princeton eating clubs to Wall Street wealth and Manhattan glamour, and then in the 1940s to administrative power in wartime Washington. After a brief stint in 1940 as White House assistant he became Undersecretary and then Secretary of the Navy, and in 1947 the nation's first Secretary of Defence. In the process, he rejected an intrusive mother and her dreams of the priesthood, married an unstable showgirl, bedded a succession of women, ...
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