The National Interest, June 22nd, 1998
Benjamin Welles (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997), 437 pp., $35.
Irvin F. Gellman (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 499 pp., $39.95.
In late 1933 - and for a decade thereafter - pedestrians passing by the State Department (now the Old Executive Office Building) were treated to a spectacle promptly at 9:30 each work day morning. A chauffeured Rolls Royce would glide to a halt at the southeast corner, and an impeccably tailored gentleman would alight from the car. If, as in this case, it was winter, he would be wearing a double-breasted overcoat and brown fedora and beari...
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