Exiled emissary

<p><em style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>Exiled Emissary</em><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)> is a biography of the colorful life of George H. Earle III - a Main Line Philadelphia millionaire war hero awarded the Navy Cross Pennsylvania Governor Ambassador to Austria and Bulgaria friend and supporter of Franklin Roosevelt humanitarian playboy and spy. Rich in </span><em style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>Casablanca</em><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>-style espionage and intrigue Farrell's deeply personal study presents FDR and his White House in a new light especially when they learned in 1943 that high-ranking German officials approached Earle in Istanbul to convey their plot to kidnap Hitler and seek an armistice. When FDR rejected their offer thereby prolonging World War II his close relationship with Earle became most inconvenient resulting in Earle's exile to American Samoa. Earle eventually returned to the United States renewing his warnings about communism to President Truman who underestimated the threat as a bugaboo. Now over four decades following Earle's death Farrell has uncovered newly declassified records that give voice to his warnings about a threat we now know should have never been dismissed.</span></p><p><br></p>