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Description edit
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... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Add a description of this character.
- Eleanor
- Cummings
- Sara
- Wilson
- Daniels
- Farley
- Louis Howe
- James
- Churchill
- Al Smith
- Stimson
- Marshall
- Elliott
- Anna
- Ickes
- Hitler
- Willkie
- Wallace
- Hughes
- Stalin
- Garner
- Morgenthau
- Hull
- Eisenhower
- John
- Knox
- Murphy
- Lucy
- Taft
- Rosenman
- Frances Perkins
- Sheehan
- Yamamoto
- Mcadoo
- Leahy
- Landon
- Wagner
- Flynn
- Hoover
- Miller
- Bryan
- Konoye
- Barkley
- Peabody
Setting & Locations edit
- New York City
- United States
- Washington
- White House
- Japan
- Germany
- Europe
- America
- Hyde Park
- Chicago
- Albany
- Great Britain
- Tammany
- China
- Russia
- Pacific
- California
- London
- Paris
- Groton
- Campobello
- Tokyo
- New Deal
- Atlantic
- Massachusetts
- Italy
- England
- Mississippi
- Soviet Union
- Texas
- Georgia
- Alabama
- Boston
- Berlin
- Iowa
- Ohio
- New Jersey
- Poland
- Maryland
- Wall Street
- Pennsylvania
- San Francisco
- Teheran
- South Carolina
- Poughkeepsie
- Nebraska
- North Africa
First Sentence edit
The Roosevelts were an old but relatively inconspicuous New York family.
Table of Contents edit
Preface
1. Heritage
2. My Son Franklin
3. Keeping the Name in the Family
4. Albany
5. Awakening
6. Anchors Aweigh
7. War
8. Lucy
9. The Campaign of 1920
10. Polio
11. Governor
12. Albany Redux
13. Nomination
14. Nothing to Fear
15. One Hundred Days
16. New Deal Ascendant
17. Hubris
18. Low Tide
19. On the Brink
20. Stab in the Back
21. Four More Years
22. Arsenal of Democracy
23. Day of Infamy
24. Commander in Chief
25. D-Day
26. Last Post
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jean Edward Smith (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 1400061210
Page Count: 880
Publisher: Random House
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 1400061210
Page Count: 880
Awards edit
- Francis Parkman Prize (2008)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: E807 .S58
- Dewey: 973.917092
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