Roosevelt`s Secret War, Persico, Joseph

Roosevelts Secret War is crowded with remarkable revelations:
-FDR wanted to bomb Tokyo before Pearl Harbor
-A defector from Hitlers inner circle reported directly to the Oval Office
-Roosevelt knew before any other world leader of Hitlers plan to invade Russia
-Roosevelt and Churchill concealed a disaster costing hundreds of British soldiers lives in order to protect Ultra, the British codebreaking secret
-An unwitting Japanese diplomat provided the President with a direct pipeline into Hitlers councils

Roosevelts Secret War also describes how much FDR had been told--before the Holocaust--about the coming fate of Europes Jews. And Persico also provides a definitive answer to the perennial question Did FDR know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor?

By temperament and character, no American president was better suited for secret warfare than FDR. He manipulated, compartmentalized, dissembled, and misled, demonstrating a spymasters talent for intrigue. He once remarked, I never let my right hand know what my left hand does. Not only did Roosevelt create Americas first central intelligence agency, the OSS, under Wild Bill Donovan, but he ran spy rings directly from the Oval Office, enlisting well-placed socialite friends.