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072 7 _aBIO
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099 _aB DONOVAN
100 1 _aWaller, Douglas C.
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245 1 0 _aWild Bill Donovan :
_bthe spymaster who created the OSS and modern American espionage /
_cDouglas Waller.
250 _aUnabridged.
260 _aNew York, NY
_bFirst Free Press
_c2011.
300 _a466 p
_bblack and white photos
_c21 cm
520 _aHe was one of America's most secretive generals, the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. "Wild Bill" Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency) and the father of today's CIA. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before. Now journalist Douglas Waller has mined government and private archives throughout the United States and England, drawn on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and interviewed scores of Donovan's relatives, friends, and associates to produce a biography of one of the most powerful men in modern espionage. William Joseph Donovan's life was packed with personal drama. The son of poor Irish Catholic parents, he married into Protestant wealth and fought in World War I, where he earned the nickname "Wild Bill" for his intense leadership and the Medal of Honor for his heroism. After the war he made millions as a Republican lawyer on Wall Street until FDR, a Democrat, tapped him to be his strategic intelligence chief. A charismatic leader, Donovan was revered by his secret agents. Yet at times he was reckless, risking his life unnecessarily in war zones, engaging in extramarital affairs that became fodder for his political enemies, and he endured tragedy when family members died at young ages. Wild Bill Donovan reads like a spy thriller, with stories of daring young men and women in his OSS sneaking behind enemy lines for sabotage, breaking into Washington embassies to steal secrets, plotting to topple Adolf Hitler, and suffering brutal torture or death when they were captured by the Gestapo. It is also a tale of political intrigue, of infighting at the highest levels of government, of powerful men pitted against one another. Donovan fought enemies at home as often as the Axis abroad. Generals in the Pentagon plotted against him. J. Edgar Hoover had FBI agents dig up dirt on him. Donovan stole secrets from the Soviets before the dawn of the Cold War and had intense battles with Winston Churchill and British spy chiefs over foreign turf. Separating fact from fiction, Waller investigates the successes and the occasional spectacular failures of Donovan's intelligence career
521 8 _aGeneral adult.
600 1 0 _aDonovan, William J.
_q(William Joseph),
_d1883-1959.
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600 1 7 _aDonovan, William J.
_q(William Joseph),
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610 1 0 _aUnited States.
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_vBiography.
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610 1 7 _aUnited States.
_bOffice of Strategic Services.
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611 2 7 _aWorld War (1939-1945)
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648 7 _a1939-1945
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650 0 _aIntelligence officers
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
_91451
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xSecret service.
_91452
650 0 _aAudiobooks.
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650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
_xGeneral.
_2bisacsh
_91455
650 7 _aHISTORY.
_xGeneral.
_2bisacsh
_91456
650 7 _aHISTORY.
_xMilitary.
_xGeneral.
_2bisacsh
_91457
650 7 _aHISTORY.
_xMilitary.
_xWorld War II.
_2bisacsh
_91458
650 7 _aHISTORY.
_xUnited States.
_xGeneral.
_2bisacsh
_91459
650 7 _aHISTORY.
_xMilitary.
_xOther.
_2bisacsh
_91460
650 7 _aHISTORY.
_xUnited States.
_x20th Century.
_2bisacsh
_91461
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE.
_xGeneral.
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_91462
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE.
_xPolitical Freedom & Security.
_xGeneral.
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_91463
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE.
_xPolitical Freedom & Security.
_xIntelligence.
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_91464
650 7 _aAudiobooks.
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650 7 _aIntelligence officers.
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650 7 _aSecret service.
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651 7 _aUnited States.
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655 7 _aAudiobooks.
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_0(OCoLC)fst01726208
_91453
655 7 _aBiography.
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655 7 _aAudiobooks.
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