A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt

Ward, Geoffrey C.

ISBN 10: 0804173354 / ISBN 13: 9780804173353

Editore: Vintage Books, New York, 2014

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8vo, 889 pp.

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• Titolo: A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
• Editore: Vintage Books, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804173354
• ISBN 13: 9780804173353
• Rilegatura: softcover
• Disegnatore: Illus. with photos
• Edizione: 1st.
• Condizione: Fine copy
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • American History

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Riassunto

In this classic of American biography, based upon thousands of original documents, many never previously published, the prize-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward tells the dramatic story of Franklin Roosevelt’s unlikely rise from cloistered youth to the brink of the presidency with a richness of detail and vivid sense of time, place, and personality usually found only in fiction.

In these pages, FDR comes alive as a fond but absent father and an often unfeeling husband--the story of Eleanor Roosevelt’s struggle to build a life independent of him is chronicled in full–as well as a charming but pampered patrician trying to find his way in the sweaty world of everyday politics and all-too willing willing to abandon allies and jettison principle if he thinks it will help him move up the political ladder. But somehow he also finds within himself the courage and resourcefulness to come back from a paralysis that would have crushed a less resilient man and then go on to meet and master the two gravest crises of his time.

Informazioni sull?autore

Geoffrey C. Ward is the coauthor of The Civil War (with Ken Burns and Ric Burns), and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize. He lives in New York City.