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Memoirs of Cordell Hull V2
OK, but unfortunately I had previously purchased from another source V1 and my V2 purchase does not match bindings. My fault, I should have been more careful and inquisitive about exactness of the product. Beside this everything was fine. ... Read more

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Good but short.
Hinton wrote a good biography of Cordell Hull.Much of the story involves Hull before his eleven years as Secretary of State.Hull has a reputation as not having a big role in foreign policy under Roosevelt.The book wrote about how he concentrated a lot on Latin America.Hinton too theorizes that Hull was very modest and did not get much credit for his contributions.It seems tough that longevity didn't equal big personal achievements as Secretary of State.

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Scattered Stories and Murky Motives
There are many things to like in this volume, particularly its profiles of six or eight largely forgotten luminaries of the Franklin Roosevelt administration. Unfortunately these pocket biographies, and the obscure crises that engaged them, are strung together very loosely, so that as a whole the book all but defies sustained reading. This is a volume to dip into at random for a few entertaining pages, and then to put aside when the author, bowing to chronological necessity, moves on to new personalities and vaguer problems.

In his foreword to the paperback edition, Irwin Gellman explains that he initially intended merely to tell about FDR's relations with Cordell Hull (Secretary of State) and Sumner Welles (Under-Secretary, and personal friend of FDR), but the scope of his research quickly outgrew his intentions. Major players kept turning up and demanding time on stage, and often there was scant biographical information available on these people. No one had ever written a biography of William C. Bullitt, for example, and the Sumner Welles papers were being jealously guarded by Welles's son for his own as-yet unpublished biography. And then there were folks like Assistant Secretary R. Walton Moore, the elderly eminence grise of State who died suddenly in 1941 and then was virtually forgotten. Finally, the tale of FDR's State Department could not be told without discussion of Presidential elections, particularly that of 1940. Cordell Hull himself expected to be the nominee (FDR had privately encouraged him, while privately going ahead with third-term ambitions), but James Farley and John Nance Garner also had their eyes on that prize. And so Gellman keeps digressing despite himself, then struggles to get back to the meat of the story.

The largest subplot is the long-running feud between Bullitt and Welles, both of whom hoped to succeed Hull as Secretary of State. Both had bristly egos and a talent for making themselves unpopular. Bullitt's antagonism toward Welles was probably ideological, but he was unable or unwilling to make it look like anything other than personal pique. As his trump card against Welles he tried to exploit a scandalous story then making the rounds of official Washington, a preposterously lurid tale about Pullman porters that was apparently true but which FDR was quite sick of hearing about. In playing this card, Bullitt destroyed both his own career and that of Welles.

By the start of the Truman administration, most of the New Deal-era State Department was gone or in disarray. A tragic outcome, in Welles's opinion, and Gellman is very much in his camp. Having lost all this expertise of the Roosevelt era, the argument goes, the new administration was now ham-handed in its diplomatic dealings with the Soviets and others. Personally I find this argument very thin. Welles's expertise extended mostly to Latin America, and his influence at State was mostly an ideologial one, within a "progressive" cadre that included Alger Hiss and Lawrence Duggan, both of whom were also forced out of the State Department. It was at Welles's recommendation that Hiss became the UN's first acting Secretary General. When in 1948 congressional investigators named Hiss and Duggan as Communists, Welles spoke sonorously in their defense. It is really hard to imagine that this circle could have remained at State, let alone maintain influence, after about 1944.

This book is valuable for its biliographical material, and as an introduction to some interesting characters worthy of deeper study. It all might have worked better if Gellman had broken up into five or six sections, each focusing on the career and motives of an individual.

Gellman seeks to discredit Hull and advance Sumner Welles
Gellman passionately advances the notion that Hull's undersecretary, the notorious homosexual and wealthy Harvard man, Sumner Welles was responsible for everything usually credited to Hull, such as the founding of the United Nations. Welles was pro-Israel as is Gellman.Gellman dismisses Hull as being anti-semitic even though Hull's wife was of Jewish heritage.

A very biased account of an important period in American history which ignores all evidence counter to the author's position. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1913.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Kapitel: Al Gore, Andrew Jackson, Fred Thompson, Cordell Hull, Liste Der Senatoren Der Vereinigten Staaten Aus Tennessee, Howard Baker, Andrew Johnson, Felix Grundy, Estes Kefauver, Robert Love Taylor, John Henry Eaton, Isham G. Harris, William Blount, George W. Campbell, William Gannaway Brownlow, Lamar Alexander, Edward W. Carmack, Hugh Lawson White, Tom Stewart, Harlan Mathews, William R. Webb, James B. Frazier, William Brimage Bate, Bill Brock, David M. Key, Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson, Washington C. Whitthorne, John Williams, Newell Sanders, James C. Jones, Ephraim Hubbard Foster, Alexander O. Anderson, Daniel Smith, Ross Bass, Joseph Anderson, Spencer Jarnagin, Herbert Sanford Walters, Henry Cooper, Albert Gore Senior, John Bell, William Emerson Brock, Nathan L. Bachman, James E. Bailey, John K. Shields, Bill Frist, Hopkins L. Turney, Jesse Wharton, Jenkin Whiteside, Bob Corker. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Creek War War of 1812 First Seminole WarConquest of Florida Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829-1837). He was military governor of Florida (1821), commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815), and eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy. A polarizing figure who dominated American politics in the 1820s and 1830s, his political ambition combined with widening political participation, shaping the modern Democratic Party. His legacy is now seen as mixed, as a protector of popular democracy and individual liberty for American citizens, checkered by his support for slavery and Indian removal. Renowned for his toughness, he was nicknamed "Old Hickory". As he based his career in developing Tennessee, Jackson was the first president primarily associated with the American frontier. Andrew Jackson was born to Presbyterian Scotch-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, on March 15, 1767, approximately two years...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: Cordell Hull, Gordon Browning, Sue K. Hicks, Jimmy Duncan, Samuel Cole Williams, A. A. Birch, Jr., Seth Walker Norman, Joe Brown, William B. Campbell, John Mcnairy, Odell Horton, Albert H. Roberts, Bernice B. Donald, Robert L. Childers, John T. Raulston, Ray L. Reagan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 61. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871 July 23, 1955) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known as the longest-serving Secretary of State, holding the position for 11 years (19331944) in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during much of World War II. Hull received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations, and was referred to by President Roosevelt as the Father of the United Nations. Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, which is now part of Pickett County, Tennessee, but was then part of Overton County. He became the elected chairman of the Clay County Democratic Party at the age of 19. In 1891, Hull graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University and was admitted to the bar as a teenager. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1893 to 1897. During the Spanish-American War, he served in Cuba as a captain in the Fourth Regiment of the Tennessee Volunteer Infantry. Hull served 11 terms in the United States House of Representatives (19071921 and 19231931) and authored the federal income tax laws of 1913 and 1916 and the inheritance tax of 1916. After an electoral defeat in 1920, Hull served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was elected to the Senate in 1930, but resigned upon being named Secretary of State in 1933. In 1933 Hull was appointed Secretary of State by Franklin D. Roosevelt; he served 11 ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=267720 ... Read more