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  48 “the ice-cold evil”: Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century (New York: Vintage, 1981), p. 331.

  49 “I shared the repulsion”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 382.

  50 “undoubtedly a great man”: Ibid., p. 361.

  51 “hypersensitive man”: Lloyd Shearer, Parade, March 13, 1977.

  52 “I do not understand”: Charles Lindbergh, Wartime Journals, p. 115.

  53 “Perhaps it is because”: Dorothy Herrmann, Anne Morrow Lindbergh: A Gift for Life (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993), p. 236.

  54 “If England and Germany”: Charles Lindbergh, Wartime Journals, p. 136.

  55 “has, if any man”: “The Talk of the Town,” New Yorker, Nov. 26, 1938.

  56 “flabbergasted”: Murray Green interview with Gen. Arthur W. Vanaman, Green papers, AFA.

  57 “the albatross”: Truman Smith, Berlin Alert, p. 134.

  58 “A hurricane”: Cooper C. Graham, “ ‘Olympia’ in America, 1938: Leni Riefenstahl, Hollywood and the Kristallnacht,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 1993.

  59 “We know Charles”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 380.

  60 “His refusal”: Roger Butterfield, “Lindbergh,” Life, Aug. 11, 1941.

  61 “the fuss about it”: Truman Smith, Berlin Alert, p. 134.

  62 “I cannot be tolerant”: Robert Sherwood interview with Harold Ickes, Sherwood papers, HL.

  63 “a world without”: T. H. Watkins, Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874–1952 (New York: Henry Holt, 1990), p. 163.

  64 “a common scold”: Life, Sept. 2, 1940.

  65 “Washington’s tough guy”: Watkins, Righteous Pilgrim, p. 337.

  66 “fundamentally”: Adolf Berle diary, Sept. 11, 1940, Berle papers, FDRPL.

  67 “a decoration”: New York Times, Dec. 19, 1938.

  68 “the first man”: Harold Ickes to John Wheeler, May 9, 1941, Ickes papers, LC.

  69 “convenient channel”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 380.

  70 “his immobile”: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922–1928 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), p. 216.

  71 “Their scorn”: Anne Lindbergh, Flower and the Nettle, p. 470.

  72 “I felt I could”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 383.

  CHAPTER 2: “WE WERE FOOLS”

  1 “There must have been”: Charles Lindbergh, Wartime Journals, pp. 182–83.

  2 “walking on eggshells”: Murray Green interview with Gen. Arthur A. Vanaman, Green papers, AFA.

  3 “seemed to seek”: Coffey, Hap, p. 10.

  4 “as a great personal”: Richard M. Ketchum, The Borrowed Years, 1938–1941: America on the Way to War (New York: Random House, 1989), p. 103.

  5 “practically nonexistent”: Henry H. Arnold, Global Mission (New York: Harper, 1949), p. 165.

  6 “we damned airmen”: Ibid., p. 151.

  7 “for the first time”: Ketchum, Borrowed Years, pp. 86–87.

  8 “would cost less”: John Lamberton Harper, American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan and Dean Acheson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 68.

  9 “tremendous”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 388.

  10 “Americans, having once”: Langer and Gleason, Challenge to Isolation, p. 14.

  11 “Of the hell broth”: Lynne Olson, Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour (New York: Random House, 2010), p. 67.

  12 “the smallest”: Ketchum, Borrowed Years, p. 540.

  13 “repel raids”: Olson, Citizens of London, p. 19.

  14 “Although Roosevelt”: Milton Goldin, “ ‘The Jewish Threat:’ Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army,” H-Antisemitism, February 2001.

  15 “gross injustice”: Alfred M. Beck, Hitler’s Ambivalent Attaché: Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933–1941 (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005), p. 66.

  16 “an incubator”: Pogue, Ordeal and Hope, pp. 120–21.

  17 “would mean”: Joseph Bendersky, The “Jewish Threat”: The Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army (New York: Basic Books, 2000), p. 275.

  18 “there was not”: Beck, Hitler’s Ambivalent Attaché, p. 132.

  19 “We shun political”: Philip Goodhart, Fifty Ships That Saved the World: The Foundation of the Anglo-American Alliance (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965), p. 15.

  20 “its almost pathological”: Ketchum, Borrowed Years, p. 128.

  21 “armed banditry”: James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1956), p. 352.

  22 “It is always best”: Ibid., p. 354.

  23 “He hoped”: Ibid., p. 262.

  24 “anxious to do”: Wayne S. Cole, Roosevelt and the Isolationists, 1932–1945 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983), p. 311.

  25 “repeal or emasculate”: Kenneth S. Davis, FDR: Into the Storm, 1937–1940 (New York: Random House, 1993), p. 415.

  26 “the situation in Europe”: Ibid., pp. 450–51.

  CHAPTER 3: “WHERE IS MY WORLD?”

  1 “nothing solid”: Anne Lindbergh, War Within and Without, p. 4.

  2 “the sense of”: Ibid.

  3 “very near”: Anne Lindbergh, Flower and the Nettle, p. 47.

  4 “a half-mad”: Anne Lindbergh, Hour of Gold, p. 311.

  5 “a long period”: Anne Lindbergh, Flower and the Nettle, p. 462.

  6 “I see no place”: Anne Lindbergh, War Within and Without, p. 38.

  7 “the sleeping princesses”: Anne Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn, p. xviii.

  8 “haze of insulation”: Ibid.

  9 “the belle of the ball”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 182.

  10 “the complete loss”: Anne Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn, p. 114.

  11 “She carries action”: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Locked Rooms and Open Doors: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1933–1935 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974), p. 285.

  12 “The chain”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 184.

  13 “a brown-haired”: Davis, Hero, p. 274.

  14 “this shy, cool”: Anne Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn, p. 82.

  15 “as though it”: Ibid., p. 178.

  16 “I want to marry”: Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Special People (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977), p. 127.

  17 “Colonel L …”: Anne Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn, p. 135.

  18 “I discovered”: Ibid., p. 194.

  19 “was given confidence”: Anne Lindbergh, Hour of Gold, p. 3.

  20 “The sheer fact”: Ibid.

  21 “He doesn’t seem”: Anne Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn, p. 219.

  22 “I have more”: Ibid., p. 139.

  23 “speculative parasites”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 35.

  24 “You like to”: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947–1986 (New York: Pantheon, 2012), p. 85.

  25 “He is terribly”: Anne Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn, p. 219.

  26 “this amazing”: Ibid., p. 224.

  27 “if you write”: Ibid., p. 228.

  28 “The worst problem”: Anne Lindbergh, Hour of Gold, p. 59.

  29 “Oh, it is brutal”: Ibid., p. 106.

  30 “They seemed to”: Lauren D. Lyman, “The Lindbergh I Knew,” Saturday Evening Post, April 4, 1953.

  31 “a knight”: Anne Lindbergh, Hour of Gold, p. 4.

  32 “Damn, damn, damn!”: Anne Lindbergh, Locked Rooms, p. 107.

  33 “gay, lordly”: Anne Lindbergh, Hour of Gold, p. 252.

  34 “a failure”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 330.

  35 “I feel completely”: Anne Lindbergh, Locked Rooms, pp. 240–41.

  36 “She didn’t know”: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Dearly Beloved (New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1962), p. 33.

  37 Harcourt “There were”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 480.

  38 Harcourt “the most infuriatingly”: Reeve Lindbergh, Forward from Here: Leaving Middle Age—and Other Unex
pected Adventures (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), p. 204.

  39 “shy and retreating”: Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters, 1930–1939 (London: Collins, 1969), p. 132.

  40 “something inside me”: Anne Lindbergh, Locked Rooms, p. 210.

  41 “having been brought”: Anne Lindbergh, Against Wind and Tide, p. 188.

  42 “Who am I”: Anne Lindbergh, Flower and the Nettle, p. 44.

  43 “to go by”: Anne Lindbergh, Locked Rooms, p. 331.

  44 “all my life”: Ibid.

  45 “a small work”: New Yorker, Oct. 15, 1938.

  46 “is a very great”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 362.

  47 “The talk I heard”: Anne Lindbergh, Flower and the Nettle, p. xxv.

  48 “converted to”: Ibid., p. 421.

  49 “their treatment of the Jews”: Ibid., p. 101.

  50 “This time”: Ibid., p. 554.

  51 “how wrapped up”: Anne Lindbergh, War Within and Without, p. 48.

  52 “Lindbergh is really”: Nigel Nicolson, ed., Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (New York: Putman, 1992), p. 255.

  53 “Charles isn’t capable”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 330.

  54 “eternal struggle”: Anne Lindbergh, Locked Rooms, p. 221.

  55 “She rags him”: Mosley, Lindbergh, p. 196.

  56 “We understand”: Anne Lindbergh, Locked Rooms, p. 223.

  57 “Do you feel”: Anne Lindbergh, Hour of Gold, p. 37.

  58 “yes, it is”: Anne Lindbergh, Flower and the Nettle, p. 11.

  59 “warm, fearless”: Wheeler-Bennett, Special Relationships, p. 75.

  60 “Although many”: Reeve Lindbergh, Under a Wing, p. 143.

  61 “How wonderful”: Anne Lindbergh, Flower and the Nettle, p. 154.

  62 “Anglo-American”: Robert Calder, Beware the British Serpent: The Role of Writers in British Propaganda in the United States, 1939–1945 (Montreal: Queen’s University Press, 2004), p. 24.

  63 “No colonist”: Burton K. Wheeler, Yankee from the West (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962), p. 43.

  64 “America for Americans”: John E. Moser, “The Decline of American Anglophobia,” Lecture at Université de Rouen, November 2002.

  65 “the innocent pastoral”: Mark Lincoln Chadwin, The War Hawks: American Interventionists Before Pearl Harbor (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968), p. 7.

  66 “Paint me a picture”: Calder, Beware the British Serpent, pp. 24–25.

  67 “God save America”: Anthony Cave Brown, “C”: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies (New York: Macmillan, 1987), p. 328.

  68 “lose American sympathy”: Olson, Troublesome Young Men, p. 157.

  69 “the melodramatic”: Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, Comes the Reckoning (London: Putnam, 1947), p. 23.

  70 “criticism of the British”: Ibid.

  71 BEWARE THE BRITISH: Calder, Beware the British Serpent, p. 43.

  72 “There were times”: Ibid., p. 42.

  73 “the spirit of lethargy”: Wheeler-Bennett, Special Relationships, p. 76.

  74 “a river of intelligence”: Cull, Selling War, p. 60.

  CHAPTER 4: “YOU HAVEN’T GOT THE VOTES”

  1 “impartial in thought”: Davis, FDR: Into the Storm, p. 490.

  2 “This nation”: Ketchum, Borrowed Years, p. 212.

  3 “I hope”: Ibid.

  4 “were probably”: Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 134.

  5 “This country is literally”: Peter Kurth, American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990), p. 311.

  6 “There is not”: Davis, FDR: Into the Storm, p. 457.

  7 “would come”: Ibid.

  8 “inconceivable arrogance”: Joseph W. Alsop, “I’ve Seen the Best of It”: Memoirs (New York: Norton, 1992), p. 141.

  9 “Well, captain”: Davis, FDR: Into the Storm, p. 458.

  10 “Congress has done”: Life, Feb. 27, 1939.

  11 “filled with unbounded”: Samuel and Dorothy Rosenman, Presidential Style: Some Giants and a Pygmy in the White House (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), p. 268.

  12 “overconfidence”: Ibid., p. 350.

  13 “The people”: Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (New York: Vintage, 2003), p. 58.

  14 “[M]any Congressmen”: Ibid., p. 79.

  15 “news was scarce”: Alsop, “I’ve Seen the Best of It,” p. 109.

  16 “men rush in”: Olson, Citizens of London, p. 20.

  17 “expert staffs”: Caro, Master of the Senate, p. 65.

  18 “They didn’t want”: Ibid., p. 67.

  19 “It’s no fun”: Life, Jan. 1, 1940.

  20 “a target”: Robert H. Jackson, That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 46.

  21 “Boys, here’s”: Frederick Lewis Allen, Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America (New York: Perennial, 1986), p. 296.

  22 “the signal that”: Marquis W. Childs, I Write from Washington (New York: Harper, 1942), p. 127.

  23 “one of the wiliest”: “Boss Isolationist,” Life, May 19, 1941.

  24 “cool and deadly”: Jeff Shesol, Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court (New York: Norton, 2010), p. 318.

  25 “If I don’t”: “Boss Isolationist,” Life, May 19, 1941.

  26 “Anything the Company”: Childs, I Write from Washington, p. 186.

  27 “I’ve been watching”: Watkins, Righteous Pilgrim, p. 621.

  28 “greatest national debate”: Alsop, “I’ve Seen the Best of It,” pp. 114–15.

  29 “the chances of congressional”: Davis, FDR: Into the Storm, p. 100.

  30 “I must confess”: Wheeler, Yankee from the West, p. 425.

  31 “an Old Testament”: Francis Biddle, In Brief Authority (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962), p. 5.

  32 “had made up”: Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (New York: Knopf, 1982), p. 562.

  33 “Punch drunk”: Davis, FDR: Into the Storm, p. 107.

  34 “sons of the wild”: Wheeler, Yankee from the West, p. 278.

  35 “wants to knock”: Ketchum, Borrowed Years, p. 174.

  36 “snug, over-safe”: Rachel Maddow, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power (New York: Crown, 2012), p. 43.

  37 “unscrupulous”: Cole, Roosevelt and the Isolationists, p. 309.

  38 “had no principles”: Alsop, “I’ve Seen the Best of It,” p. 97.

  39 “a falsification”: Steel, Walter Lippmann, p. 382.

  CHAPTER 5: “THIS WAR HAS COME HOME TO ME”

  1 “I do not intend”: Charles Lindbergh, Wartime Journals, p. 252.

  2 “had something”: Roger Butterfield, “Lindbergh,” Life, Aug. 11, 1941.

  3 “I don’t believe”: Ibid.

  4 “fully within”: Charles Lindbergh, Wartime Journals, p. 254.

  5 “He is just”: New York Times Magazine, April 30, 1939.

  6 “You see”: Charles Lindbergh, Wartime Journals, p. 257.

  7 “take part”: New York Times, Sept. 16, 1939.

  8 “a quarrel”: “Hero Speaks,” Time, Sept. 25, 1939.

  9 “This is the test”: New York Times, Sept. 16, 1939.

  10 “Asiatic intruder”: Cole, Lindbergh, p. 78.

  11 “the exemplar”: Bendersky, “Jewish Threat,” p. 28.

  12 “racial characteristics”: Ibid., p. 29.

  13 “the leading part”: Ibid., p. 26.

  14 “all the things”: Anne Lindbergh, War Within and Without, p. 48.

  15 “That is the nightmare”: Ibid., pp. 38–39.

  16 “all kinds”: Berg, Lindbergh, p. 397.

  17 “very well worded”: Murray Green, unpublished manuscript, Green papers, AFA.

  18 “Lindbergh”: Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), p. 475.

  19 “offered a hand”: New York Times, Oct. 14, 1939.
br />   20 “Racial strength”: Davis, Hero, p. 391.

  21 “To many”: “Hounds in Cry,” Time, Oct. 30, 1939.

  22 “pro-Ally”: Thomas Lamont to New York Times, Oct. 14, 1935, Lamont papers, BL.

  23 “obviously, my”: Charles Lindbergh, Wartime Journals, p. 269.

  24 “almost pathological”: New York Times, Oct. 21, 1939.

  25 “rather silly”: Charles Lindbergh, Wartime Journals, p. 279.

  26 “that biting”: Anne Lindbergh, War Within and Without, p. 65.

  27 “People who”: Vincent Sheean, Dorothy and Red (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963), p. 255.

  28 “a very good”: Ibid., p. 173.

  29 “is a complete”: Kurth, American Cassandra, p. 163.

  30 “The spectacle”: Ibid., p. 281.

  31 “civilized world”: Ibid, p. 241.

  32 “If I ever”: Ibid., p. 167.

  33 “She plainly feels”: “The It Girl,” New Yorker, April 27, 1940.

  34 “Believe it”: Kurth, American Cassandra, p. 242.

  35 “a somber cretin”: Ibid., p. 312.

  36 “Colonel Lindbergh’s”: “The It Girl,” New Yorker, April 27, 1940.

  37 “She sensed”: “Hounds in Cry,” Time, Oct. 30, 1939.

  38 “heartily approved”: Harold Ickes, The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes, Vol. 3, The Lowering Clouds, 1939–1941 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955), p. 20.

  39 “that terrible”: Anne Lindbergh, War Within and Without, p. 104.

  40 “We are thrown”: Ibid., p. 64.

  41 “I feel”: Charles Lindbergh, Wartime Journals, p. 282.

  42 “I pray”: Kurth, American Cassandra, p. 313.

  43 “Why not”: Ibid.

  44 “represented Nobody”: John Mason Brown, The Ordeal of a Playwright: Robert E. Sherwood and the Challenge of War (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), p. 96.

  45 “Sherwood remains”: S. N. Behrman, “Old Monotonous,” New Yorker, June 8, 1940.

  46 “my bit”: John Mason Brown, The Worlds of Robert E. Sherwood: Mirror to His Times, 1896–1939 (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), p. 209.

  47 “crap games”: Ibid., p. 210.

  48 “The best thing”: Ibid., p. 211.

  49 “a hymn of hate”: Harriet Hyman Alonso, Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), p. 100.

  50 “Oh God”: Ibid., p. 189.

  51 “practically every word”: Ibid., pp. 203–4.