{"product_id":"the-wilson-duplicity-kathleen-mcmenamin-9781506915470","title":"The Wilson Duplicity: A Mattie McGary + Winston Churchill 1929 Adventure","description":"Book 10 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1929 America, Herbert Hoover is President of the United States and one of his personal heroes-in whose wartime cabinet he served-was the late President Woodrow Wilson who ran for re-election in 1916 on the slogan \"He kept us out of war\". Yet only two weeks after his second inauguration on 5 March 1917, he asked Congress to declare war on Imperial Germany. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on information supplied by Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler [a two-time Medal of Honor recipient who President Hoover once tried to have court-martialed for publicly insulting Italian dictator Benito Mussolini], Hearst's Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Mattie McGary discovers dark secrets in Woodrow Wilson's past that explain this abrupt, seemingly hypocritical about-face on the war-dark secrets used by the British Secret Intelligence Service [SIS] to blackmail Wilson into seeking a declaration of war against Germany. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen President Hoover and the SIS learn of this, they are each determined to do whatever it takes to stop Mattie from publishing a story exposing Wilson's flaws and the SIS use of it to blackmail him into a declaration of war that prolonged the Great War for another two years, causing eight million more military and civilian deaths. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe McMenamin writing teams are award-winning, and one should not expect anything different from \u003ci\u003eThe Wilson Duplicity\u003c\/i\u003e. Three-Time Grand Prize Winner Fiction, Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Three-Time Thriller\/Suspense Book of the Year, ForeWord Reviews. Two-Time Historical Fiction Book of the Year, ForeWord Reviews. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael McMenamin is the co-author with his son Patrick of the first five award-winning 1930s era historical novels featuring Winston Churchill and his fictional Scottish goddaughter, the adventure-seeking Hearst photojournalist Mattie McGary. The first five novels in the series-The DeValera Deception, The Parsifal Pursuit, The Gemini Agenda, The Berghof Betrayal and The Silver Mosaic-received a total of 15 literary awards. He is currently at work with his daughter Kathleen McMenamin on the eighth Mattie + Winston historical adventure, The Prussian Memorandum. He is also the author of Becoming Winston Churchill, a joint biography of the young Churchill and his Irish-American mentor, the New York lawyer and statesman Bourke Cockran. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKathleen, the other half of the father-daughter writing team, has been editing her father's writing for longer than she cares to remember. She is the co-author with her father of the 2018 novella, Appointment in Prague, A Mattie McGary + Winston Churchill World War II Adventure. She also is the co-author with her sister Kelly of the critically acclaimed Organize Your Way: Simple Strategies for Every Personality [Sterling, 2017].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen McMenamin,Michael McMenamin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1506915477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781506915470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e First Edition Design Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Kathleen McMenamin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48454334185727,"sku":"9781506915470","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f2d433d-ae79-4057-ac4f-36633e4b5aca.jpg?v=1777305583","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-wilson-duplicity-kathleen-mcmenamin-9781506915470","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}