![]() government and Georgetown society, winning over First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband, Franklin befriending wartime leaders from Henry Wallace to Henry Morgenthau and seducing the glamorous freshman congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce.ĭahl would soon be caught up in a complex web of deception masterminded by William Stephenson, aka Intrepid, Churchill's legendary spy chief, who, with President Roosevelt's tacit permission, mounted a secret campaign of propaganda and political subversion to weaken American isolationist forces, bring the country into the war against Germany, and influence U.S. A patriot eager to do his part to save his country from a Nazi invasion, he invaded the upper reaches of the U.S. When Roald Dahl, a dashing young wounded RAF pilot, took up his post at the British Embassy in Washington in 1942, his assignment was to use his good looks, wit, and considerable charm to gain access to the most powerful figures in American political life. ![]()
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