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FDR (Paperback)

By: Jean Edward Smith (Author)

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"This erudite but graceful volume illuminates FDR's life for scholars, history buffs and casual readers alike."

"This is a terrific one volume, comprehensive look at an extraordinary life....Smith never bogs down."

"[A] remarkable, sympathetic biography....The Roosevelt who emerges here--neither a stranger nor a painted icon--is flawed and magnificent."

"Although FDR's greatness is an indisputable theme in Mr. Smith's book, this is no hagiography."

"This excellent biography provides a fresh, readable interpretation of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency as well as a careful synthesis of the vast scholarship about him."

Publisher's note

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 women in his life, and the physical disabilities that he successfully hid from the general public. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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In this magisterial one-volume biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, historian Jean Edward Smith provides a fair and full account of one of the great presidents of the 20th century. Smith provides a portrait of a robust man, from an aristocratic background, who overcame obstacles and championed the common man. He focuses on the key roles played by Roosevelt's mother, Sara; his wife, Eleanor; his mistress, Lucy Mercer; and his confidential secretary and aide, Missy Lehand--all of whom deserve credit for influencing FDR as a person.

Smith assesses how Roosevelt increased presidential power and reshaped the government, yet stumbled in his brazen attempt to pack the Supreme Court. He acknowledges the internment of Japanese-Americans and discusses FDR's failure to see, understand, and act on the Holocaust. Finally, Smith recounts how FDR's deft use of the media changed politics and the campaigns that followed. Highly readable, Smith's life of Roosevelt shows there is still much to say about this much-written-about man.

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