By Upton Sinclair
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Publish 12 months note: First released in 1945
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On the eve of worldwide battle II, Lanny Budd reenters the lethal snake pit of Nazi Germany as a presidential spy
An American paintings professional raised in an international of eu wealth and privilege, Lanny Budd is devoted to his socialist beliefs and to combatting the dual scourges of Nazism and Fascism. In 1937, an opportunity stumble upon in ny with Professor Charles Alston—his boss on the Paris Peace convention and now one in all President Roosevelt's best advisors—provides Lanny with the chance to make a profound difference.
Appointed Presidential Agent 103, the overseas artwork broker embarks on a mystery task that takes him again into the 3rd Reich because the Allied powers arrange to cede Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler in a futile try to steer clear of battle. yet Lanny's motivations should not simply political: the lady he loves has fallen into the brutal palms of the Gestapo, and Lanny will threat every thing to save lots of her.
Presidential Agent is the action-packed 5th installment of Upton Sinclair's Pulitzer Prize–winning sequence that brings the 1st 1/2 the 20th century to dramatic lifestyles. An striking mixture of heritage, experience, and romance, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testomony to the breathtaking scope of the author's imaginative and prescient and his singular skills as a storyteller.
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Whenever they played for the workers, which they did frequently, the couple always closed by playing the Internationale. Always the audience would rise and cheer, even those who were not Communists; for, whatever their creed might be, they knew that this hymn meant battle against the oppressors. These New York Jews wanted to fight Hitlerism with any and every weapon they could lay hands upon. Lanny had first seen her in the midst of World War, and she had been welcoming him to the land of his fathers.
Johannes would have turned anarchist if he had thought that was a way to bring justice upon the heads of those Nazi barbarians who had murdered his son and come so near to murdering himself. Johannes would pour it out in floods, and would have been greatly pleased if he had known what use was going to be made of it. They had been mixed up with all the European tribes for a thousand years, but alas, it hadn’t done them any good. Hansi Robin, tall and dark-haired, might have stepped out of any of the books of the Old Testament; he stood before them, grave and priestlike, playing the Jewish music that he loved: Kol Nidre and Achron’s Hebrew Prayer, and Ernest Bloch’s Nigun, from the Baal Shem suite.
R. And suppose the great man happened to be too busy to see him—what then would become of an art expert’s bright dream of changing world history? “Put not your trust in princes,” the psalmist had advised, and Lanny was not heeding the warning. They wanted to make the world safe for democracy, and at the same time to keep the country out of war. When they discovered that these aims were incompatible, they were in a predicament, and what wonder if their words one day contradicted the words of the previous day, and if their actions were not always in accordance with the campaign platforms of their party?