Driven patriot : the life and times of James Forrestal /
A biography of the brilliant, ambitious Forrestal whose career took him from the Wall Street to Washington.
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Annapolis, Md. :
Naval Institute Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; 1. MAKING READY; CHAPTER 1: Forebears, Parents and Siblings; CHAPTER 2: Growing Up Irish; CHAPTER 3: The Princeton Years; II. A SWIFT ASCENT; CHAPTER 4: Love and Marriage in the Jazz Age; CHAPTER 5: Getting Rich on Wall Street; CHAPTER 6: Surviving the Crash of 1929; CHAPTER 7: Family Life; CHAPTER 8: The Struggle for Wall Street Reform; III. THE MIGHTIEST FLEET; CHAPTER 9: Washington 1940; CHAPTER 10: New Burdens; CHAPTER 11: Encountering the Navy; CHAPTER 12: Asserting Civilian Control; CHAPTER 13: Gathering Momentum.
- CHAPTER 14: Troubles with Admiral KingCHAPTER 15: Secretary of the Navy; CHAPTER 16: Ending the War; CHAPTER 17: Private Life in the Nation's Capital; IV. THE COMMUNIST CHALLENGE; CHAPTER 18: The FDR Legacy; CHAPTER 19: No Return to Private Life; CHAPTER 20: The Emerging Anti-Communist Consensus; CHAPTER 21: The Godfather of Containment; CHAPTER 22: Controlling the Bomb; CHAPTER 23: Waging Cold War; V. THE STRUGGLE FOR MILITARY UNIFICATION; CHAPTER 24: A Task of Greatest Difficulty
- CHAPTER 25: The Weak Compromise; CHAPTER 26: The First Secretary of Defense.
- CHAPTER 27: The Bitter Fight over Air PowerVI. EXHAUSTION AND TRAGEDY; CHAPTER 28: The Palestine Imbroglio; CHAPTER 29: Strategy Deadlock; CHAPTER 30: The Final Budget Fight; CHAPTER 31: Things Fall Apart; CHAPTER 32: Breakdown; CHAPTER 33: Final Honors and Assessment; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A Note About The Authors.
