FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance

FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance. By Robert Klara. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 244 pp.

In FDR's Funeral Train, magazine writer and editor Robert Klara tells the story of the train that carried Franklin D. Roosevelt's body from Warm Springs, Georgia, where he died on April 12, 1945, to its final resting place at the Roosevelt family estate in Hyde Park, New York. As it made its grim voyage it carried some of the most noteworthy individuals in America, including the newly sworn-in President Harry Truman, the current and former first ladies, the cabinet, the Supreme Court, and leaders of both the House and the Senate. As it made its way along the eastern seaboard, it passed...