By Upton Sinclair
An American artwork professional raised in a global of ecu 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 manhattan 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 paintings broker embarks on a mystery task that takes him again into the 3rd Reich because the Allied powers organize to cede Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler in a futile try and keep away from warfare. yet Lanny’s motivations aren't simply political: the lady he loves has fallen into the brutal fingers of the Gestapo, and Lanny will danger every thing to avoid wasting her.
Presidential Agent is the action-packed 5th installment of Upton Sinclair’s Pulitzer Prize–winning sequence that brings the 1st 1/2 the 20 th century to dramatic existence. An stunning mixture of background, event, and romance, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testomony to the breathtaking scope of the author’s imaginative and prescient and his singular abilities as a storyteller.
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