Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal (Bluejacket Books)

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Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal by Townsend Hoopes

As secretary of the navy during World War II, he was the principal architect in transforming an obsolescent navy into the largest, most formidable naval force in history. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again.

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Brilliant, ambitious, glamorous, yet a perpetual outsider, Forrestal forged a career that took him from his working-class origins to the social and financial stratosphere of Wall Street, and fro A haunting portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the mid-twentieth century, this biography takes a penetrating look at James Forrestal's life and work. Brilliant, ambitious, glamorous, yet a perpetual outsider, Forrestal forged a career that took him from his working-class origins to the social and financial stratosphere of Wall Street, and from there to policy making in Washington.

As secretary of the navy during World War II, he was the principal architect in transforming an obsolescent navy into the largest, most formidable naval force in history.

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After the war, as the nation's first secretary of defense, he played a major role in shaping the anti-Communist consensus that sustained the U. Despite his many achievements, Forrestal's life ended in tragedy with his suicide in This absorbing study not only takes an understanding look at the many-sided man but presents an authoritative history of the great but troubled years of America's rise to world primacy.

Winner of the Roosevelt Naval History Prize, the book enjoyed wide acclaim when first published and is now considered a definitive work. Paperback , pages.

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To ask other readers questions about Driven Patriot , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Another "Roaring 20's" banker with Irish Catholic guilt on top of that ends up in charge of the military as our first Secretary of Defense at the very beginning of the Cold War. Following his decent into insanity makes one wonder at the legality of amphetamines at the time. Rather than return home, he took demeaning work for over a year before walking into the office of a Princeton Wall Street acquaintance.

Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal

His classic Roaring Twenties career made him a millionaire: The authors' comparisons with Gatsby are not far-fetched. Controlled, polite, and mysterious, Forrestal was also respected and liked, an eligible and promiscuous bachelor member of the Wall Street elite, working with the legendary Clarence Dillon on epic deals that made financial history, accepted by old money as well as by celebrities like Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and Gary Cooper.

Meanwhile, his wife, "Jo," turned out to be as stubborn and original as himself, and their open marriage his womanizing never stopped was stormy yet successful. Forrestal was a logical inductee to the coming WW II war effort; but while his Washington career eclipsed his Wall Street success, his workaholic life was coming apart. By the time he became Secretary of the Navy, the authors say, his denial of his wife's alcoholism and schizophrenia presaged an abrupt and irreversible collapse, triggered by his dismissal by Truman.

A powerful biography - critical but sympathetic - of a driven man whose dark side permeates the narrative. A haunting portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the mid-twentieth century, this biography takes a penetrating look at James Forrestal's life and work.

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Brilliant, ambitious, glamorous, yet a perpetual outsider, Forrestal forged a career that took him from his working-class origins to the social and financial stratosphere of Wall Street, and from there to policy making in Washington.