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    The second most powerful man in the world : the life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff / Phillips Payson O'Brien.
    by O'Brien, Phillips Payson, 1963- author.
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    [New York, New York] : Dutton, [2019]
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  • Leahy, William D.
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  • United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff -- Biography.
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  • Admirals -- United States -- Biography.
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    9780399584800 (hardcover) :
    0399584803 (hardcover) :
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    viii, 531 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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    The education of a naval officer -- Building a career and family -- Enter Franklin Roosevelt -- The roaring twenties -- Depression -- Nearing the top -- Rising in Roosevelt's court -- Leahy's Navy -- The first retirement -- Governor of Puerto Rico -- Ambassador to Vichy France -- Dark days -- Chief of staff to the Commander in Chief -- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- The grandest level of strategy -- From Casablanca to Trident -- Difficult friends -- Top dog -- Cairo and Tehran -- Acting president -- Leahy's war -- Atomic bombs and elections -- Yalta and death -- Truman -- The end of the war -- Two speeches -- Personal snooper -- Priorities -- Cold war -- Key West -- On the outside -- Fading away -- The forgotten man.
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    "The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief"--
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    Aina Haina Public LibraryAdult BiographyB Leahy O'BChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
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