| FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance |  | Author: Robert Klara
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0230619142
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.917092
EAN: 9780230619142
ASIN: 0230619142
Publication Date: March 16, 2010
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The April 1945 journey of FDR’s funeral train became a thousand-mile odyssey, fraught with heartbreak and scandal. As it passed through the night, few of the grieving onlookers gave thought to what might be happening behind the Pullman shades, where women whispered and men tossed back highballs. Inside was a Soviet spy, a newly widowed Eleanor Roosevelt, who had just discovered that her husband’s mistress was in the room with him when he died, all the Supreme Court justices, and incoming president Harry S. Truman who was scrambling to learn secrets FDR had never shared with him. Weaving together information from long-forgotten diaries and declassified Secret Service documents, journalist and historian Robert Klara enters the private world on board that famous train. He chronicles the three days during which the country grieved and despaired as never before, and a new president hammered out the policies that would galvanize a country in mourning and win the Second World War.
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 FDR'S Funeral Train August 23, 2010
Tom
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The story was great but the ACTUAL BOOK had a small dent in the lower spine and one of the pages in the middle had been ripped. I did not think it worthy of return but in retrospect I probably should have.
 Incredible! August 1, 2010
Rick
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book couldn't be more fascinating! Roosevelt devotees will learn immensely educating new details about those fateful days in 1945. I highly, highly recommend purchasing the book.
FDR would have loved this: History & Intrigue!! July 13, 2010
W. R. Nelson (Glenview, IL USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Anyone who knows the "basics" of Franklin Roosevelt will find this book a lot of fun. Those who are students of the FDR era will find that this volume fills some gaps in the general Roosevelt story (and a lot of fun). Jim Bishop gave it his best shot in 1974, with "FDR's Last Year", but for the most part this narrative has been told elsewhere in bits and pieces.
Living now in an era when the President can't go out for an ice cream cone without a full Secret Service investigation of the route, venue and source of product; reading how most all of the Federal government was transported from Washington to Hyde Park (and back again!) on two funeral trains organized in about 48 hours seems more like fantasy. Friends and enemies alike wanted to be there, and the machinations employed to get some on (and keep a couple off) the trains to Hyde Park is well told. In the words of FD: "I love it!".
Although FDR &/or WWII readers are the natural market for this book, the book is so well written that others will also find this a good entree to the person and the times.
FDR'S FUNERAL TRAIN July 12, 2010
Joseph R. Calamia (El Paso, Texas)
FDR'S FUNERAL TRAIN; by Robert Klara was an intriguing true life melodrama encompassing not only FDR's personal family affairs after is death, but a host of other on-going secrets including Soviet espionage, whispering "back-stabbing" politicians, and the very real down to earth job of keeping the country going after FDR's death.
The Funeral Train was not just the final ride for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but the beginning one for the new "Give um Hell" Harry S. Truman administration. It was not behind the walls of the lustrous White House in Washington, D.C. that Truman learned of the Manhattan project, but in the confines of a private Pullman coach named "Roald Amundsen.!"
I couldn't help but wonder how much of this drama was replayed on the same basic stage as that of President Johnson on an airplane flying back to Washington, D. C. after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Robert Klara did a superb job of journalistic research and development in this work. He obviously has a passion not just for the FDR period, but one of trains as well.
The book starts off well, and snares the readers interest quickly, however I must admit that there are intermittent periods where boredom and loss of interest set in. Perhaps, this was more...my fault than that of the author.
None the less, this book is a real "eye-opener" and worth the read.
 Attn: Macmillan, I won't be buying this until it gets to $9.99 or less July 1, 2010
Amazon shopper (in Chicago IL)
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
Sorry, wake up some publishers! You're following the recording industry in fighting technology instead of embracing it. Think iTunes store. Do you think everybody who buys your hardcovers just pitches them when they're done? They pass them on. Can't do that with the Kindle version. This is a gravy train. I haven't stopped buying expensive hardcover editions in bookstores. I NEVER BOUGHT THEM! I will, however, buy a bunch of Kindle versions at $9.99. Do you want my money or not? Stop being greedy over a few bucks and wake up! I'm just sorry that Apple screwed up a good thing that Amazon (and the publishers if they could get out of their own way) had going. Hurray for Amazon, boo for greedy publishers!
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