FDR
Jean Edward Smith
แแแ. 2007 ยท Penguin Random House Audio ยท แแแฎแ แแแแแ: Richard McGonagle
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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 todayโs 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 Americaโs greatest presidents.
This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine details. We see how Rooseveltโ s restless energy, fierce intellect, personal magnetism, and ability to project effortless grace permitted him to master countless challenges throughout his life. Smith recounts FDRโs 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 FDRโs 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 FDRโs public and individual achievements; Lucy Mercer, the great romantic love of FDRโs life; and Missy LeHand, FDRโs 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 Rooseveltโ s public career, including his disastrous attempt to reconstruct the Judiciary; the shameful internment of Japanese-Americans; and Rooseveltโs occasionally self-defeating Executive overreach. Additionally, Smith offers a sensitive and balanced assessment of Rooseveltโs response to the Holocaust, noting its breakthroughs and shortcomings.
Summing up Rooseveltโs 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 manโs 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.
One of todayโs 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 Americaโs greatest presidents.
This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine details. We see how Rooseveltโ s restless energy, fierce intellect, personal magnetism, and ability to project effortless grace permitted him to master countless challenges throughout his life. Smith recounts FDRโs 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 FDRโs 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 FDRโs public and individual achievements; Lucy Mercer, the great romantic love of FDRโs life; and Missy LeHand, FDRโs 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 Rooseveltโ s public career, including his disastrous attempt to reconstruct the Judiciary; the shameful internment of Japanese-Americans; and Rooseveltโs occasionally self-defeating Executive overreach. Additionally, Smith offers a sensitive and balanced assessment of Rooseveltโs response to the Holocaust, noting its breakthroughs and shortcomings.
Summing up Rooseveltโs 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 manโs 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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Jean Edward Smith is the author of the national bestsellerย Eisenhower in War and Peace;ย FDR, winner of the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize; Grant, a 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist; John Marshall: Definer of a Nation; and Lucius D. Clay: An American Life. A member of the faculty at the University of Toronto for thirty-five years, and at Marshall University for twelve, he is currently a senior scholar in the history department at Columbia.
Richard McGonagleย is an experienced film, television, and voiceover actor. Heโs recorded numerous audiobooks, including theย New York Timesย Ten Best Bookย The Dark Sideย by Jane Mayer,ย Rocket Menย by Craig Nelson, andย American Lionย by Jon Meacham.
Richard McGonagleย is an experienced film, television, and voiceover actor. Heโs recorded numerous audiobooks, including theย New York Timesย Ten Best Bookย The Dark Sideย by Jane Mayer,ย Rocket Menย by Craig Nelson, andย American Lionย by Jon Meacham.
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