
Driven Patriot
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- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PREFACE
- 1. MAKING READY
- CHAPTER 1: Forebears, Parents and Siblings
- CHAPTER 2: Growing Up Irish
- CHAPTER 3: The Princeton Years
- II. A SWIFT ASCENT
- CHAPTER 4: Love and Marriage in the Jazz Age
- CHAPTER 5: Getting Rich on Wall Street
- CHAPTER 6: Surviving the Crash of 1929
- CHAPTER 7: Family Life
- CHAPTER 8: The Struggle for Wall Street Reform
- III. THE MIGHTIEST FLEET
- CHAPTER 9: Washington 1940
- CHAPTER 10: New Burdens
- CHAPTER 11: Encountering the Navy
- CHAPTER 12: Asserting Civilian Control
- CHAPTER 13: Gathering Momentum
- CHAPTER 14: Troubles with Admiral King
- CHAPTER 15: Secretary of the Navy
- CHAPTER 16: Ending the War
- CHAPTER 17: Private Life in the Nation's Capital
- IV. THE COMMUNIST CHALLENGE
- CHAPTER 18: The FDR Legacy
- CHAPTER 19: No Return to Private Life
- CHAPTER 20: The Emerging Anti-Communist Consensus
- CHAPTER 21: The Godfather of Containment
- CHAPTER 22: Controlling the Bomb
- CHAPTER 23: Waging Cold War
- V. THE STRUGGLE FOR MILITARY UNIFICATION
- CHAPTER 24: "A Task of Greatest Difficulty
- CHAPTER 25: The Weak Compromise
- CHAPTER 26: The First Secretary of Defense
- CHAPTER 27: The Bitter Fight over Air Power
- VI. EXHAUSTION AND TRAGEDY
- CHAPTER 28: The Palestine Imbroglio
- CHAPTER 29: Strategy Deadlock
- CHAPTER 30: The Final Budget Fight
- CHAPTER 31: Things Fall Apart
- CHAPTER 32: Breakdown
- CHAPTER 33: Final Honors and Assessment
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A Note About The Authors
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