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226:. Back home on the Riviera, Lanny discovers that his sister Marceline's husband, the Italian fascist officer Vittorio, has stolen Marcel Detaze paintings from the home of Lanny's mother Beauty; Lanny allows Vittorio to avoid arrest by leaving France permanently. Shortly thereafter, a pregnant waitress threatens to sue Vittorio for child support; upon learning of the affair, Marceline divorces Vittorio. Marceline becomes a professional dancer. 241:
pogrom erupts all over Germany. Discouraged by the failure of England and France to arm themselves against Hitler and the political difficulties preventing FDR from acting, Lanny considers resigning as a Presidential Agent, but he stays on. Lanny sees the future holds a fateful struggle of Roosevelt
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In Germany, Lanny’s old school friend Kurt is rising as a German agent. In England, schoolmate Rick is a leftist writer of political analysis. Lanny's American heiress ex-wife Irma is looking to marry into the English aristocracy. The English upper crust, including Lanny's ex-lover Rosemary (back
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Trying further to rescue Trudi, Lanny steps up his mingling in Nazi society as an art dealer and by posing as a convert to Nazism. Hitler purchases Detaze paintings and asks Lanny to spy on wealthy Austrians in Vienna. Lanny learns Hitler is preparing to force the Anschluss; he notifies FDR. By a
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In Paris, Lanny finds his secret wife Trudi has vanished, as have others working in the anti-Nazi underground. He seeks help from his “Red” uncle Jesse. His Spanish friend Raoul may be able to reach Trudi’s old underground contact Monck, who is fighting against the fascists in the
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from the Argentine, her husband's scandal having blown over), and the wealthy DeBruyne family of Lanny's deceased French ex-lover Marie, all fear a "Red" Spain and see Hitler as preferable to Stalin.
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Lanny again reports to FDR on Nazi terrorism and aims of domination. In New York City, Lanny witnesses a fascist rally of the
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Visiting New York in 1937 to see paintings for sale, Lanny runs into his old mentor from the
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series. First published in 1944, the story covers the period from 1937 to 1938.
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partially dismembered "in the name of peace" at the 1938
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Index


Upton Sinclair
Lanny Budd
Historical
Viking Press
Hardcover
Wide Is the Gate
Dragon Harvest
Upton Sinclair
Lanny Budd
Paris Peace Conference
Adolf Hitler
Hermann Göring
Josef Goebbels
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Spanish Civil War
séance
Rudolf Hess
Dachau Concentration Camp
Christian Front (United States)
Czechoslovakia
Munich Conference
Krystallnacht
ISBN
978-1931313056
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978-1-931313-18-6
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