by Lynne Olson
39 “the bomber will”: Olson, Troublesome Young Men, p. 64.
40 “French cities”: Cole, Lindbergh, p. 53.
41 “The Fuhrer has found”: Ibid.
42 “extremely likable”: Davis, Hero, pp. 378–79.
43 “All his life”: Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, Special Relationships: America in Peace and War (London: Macmillan, 1975), p. 131.
44 “I cannot help”: Charles Lindbergh, Wartime Journals, p. 5.
45 “refusal to admit”: Cole, Lindbergh, p. 29.
46 “a sense of festivity”: Anne Lindbergh, Flower and the Nettle, p. 83.
47 “For twelve years”: Charles Lindbergh, Wartime Journals, p. 166.
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,�
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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 Unexpected 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.
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.
