Be sure to take a moment to read TPM’s excerpt from THE SPHINX: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II by Nicholas Wapshott today. In this piece, Roosevelt purges his cabinet of isolationists before heading into the 1940 Democratic convention in Chicago for a dramatic nominations process.
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