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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - ''A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man'' - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World


One of today's premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean Edward Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source material to provide an engrossing narrative of one of America's greatest presidents.


This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine details. We see how Roosevelt' s restless energy, fierce intellect, personal magnetism, and ability to project effortless grace permitted him to master countless challenges throughout his life. Smith recounts FDR's battles with polio and physical disability, and how these experiences helped forge the resolve that FDR used to surmount the economic turmoil of the Great Depression and the wartime threat of totalitarianism. Here also is FDR's private life depicted with unprecedented candor and nuance, with close attention paid to the four women who molded his personality and helped to inform his worldview: His mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, formidable yet ever supportive and tender; his wife, Eleanor, whose counsel and affection were instrumental to FDR's public and individual achievements; Lucy Mercer, the great romantic love of FDR's life; and Missy LeHand, FDR's longtime secretary, companion, and confidante, whose adoration of her boss was practically limitless.


Smith also tackles head-on and in-depth the numerous failures and miscues of Roosevelt' s public career, including his disastrous attempt to reconstruct the Judiciary; the shameful internment of Japanese-Americans; and Roosevelt's occasionally self-defeating Executive overreach. Additionally, Smith offers a sensitive and balanced assessment of Roosevelt's response to the Holocaust, noting its breakthroughs and shortcomings.


Summing up Roosevelt's legacy, Jean Smith declares that FDR, more than any other individual, changed the relationship between the American people and their government. It was Roosevelt who revolutionized the art of campaigning and used the burgeoning mass media to garner public support and allay fears. But more important, Smith gives us the clearest picture yet of how this quintessential Knickerbocker aristocrat, a man who never had to depend on a paycheck, became the common man's president. The result is a powerful account that adds fresh perspectives and draws profound conclusions about a man whose story is widely known but far less well understood. Written for the general reader and scholars alike, FDR is a stunning biography in every way worthy of its subject.

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A masterly new biography of franklin roosevelt presents a multi faceted study of the complex american president detailing his diverse roles as commander in chief leader of a social revolution at the height of the depression and statesman and offering an insightful look at his personal life the Uiterlijk 31 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

FDR

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national bestseller a model presidential biography now at last we have a biography that is right for the man jonathan yardley the washington post book world one of today s premier biographers has written a modern comprehensive indeed ultimate book on the epic life of franklin delano Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Franklin Roosevelt, Wereldleider In Oorlog En Vrede

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Franklin d roosevelt de 32 ste president van de verenigde staten werd vier keer verkozen en was daarmee de langst regerende president van amerika maar dat is niet het enige wat hem uniek maakte zijn charismatische persoonlijkheid en verrassende idee n zorgden ervoor dat hij ook een van de meest Uiterlijk 22 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 15 mei 2007

Aantal pagina's: 858

Hoofdauteur: Jean Edward Smith

Hoofduitgeverij: Random House Inc

Editie: 1

Product breedte: 165 mm

Product hoogte: 51 mm

Product lengte: 229 mm

Verpakking breedte: 163 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 52 mm

Verpakking lengte: 240 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 1356 g

EAN: 9781400061211

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