ISBN10: 0812970497, ISBN13: 9780812970494, [publisher: Random House Trade 5/13/2008] Softcover FDR 2.2
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ISBN10: 0812970497, ISBN13: 9780812970494, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. 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 WorldOne of todays 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 Americas 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 FDRs 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 FDRs 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 FDRs public and individual achievements; Lucy Mercer, the ...
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ISBN10: 0812970497, ISBN13: 9780812970494, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. 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 WorldOne of todays 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 Americas 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 FDRs 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 FDRs 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 FDRs public and individual achievements; Lucy Mercer, the ...
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New York, New York, USA: Random House, Date: 2008. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Large Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. b/w historic photographs. Clean, unmarked, tight and solid volume. A one volume portrayal of one of the most formidable personages and Presidents in US history. Jean Edward Smith presents a fascinating look at the private side of a public man and also his public life, the life of a complex man of very strong character who shaped his era, and also ours. 858 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 2008, Random House, New York, New York, USA 2008. Random House ISBN 0812970497 9780812970494 [US]

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