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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.917092
EAN: 9780307277947
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0307277941
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 912
Publication Date: September 08, 2009
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: September 08, 2009
Studio: Anchor
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Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: With Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H.W. Brands penetrates the clenched grin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a masterful biography of one of America's most beloved leaders. Though born into the upper crust of society, FDR dedicated his career to fighting for the common good and the ideals of the American Dream. With the same exhaustive research familiar to fans of his biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Jackson, Brands provides a portrait of an unflinching (and often recalcitrant) figure whose unshakable confidence inspired a beleaguered nation. FDR's path may have been unorthodox (evidenced by an unprecedented 12 years spent as commander-in-chief) and arguably illegal (the New Deal didn't always work well with the Constitution), but his shared goal of a stronger America at home and abroad endeared him to voters of varying backgrounds. "We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern," proclaimed Roosevelt in 1937. "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -- -Dave Callanan
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Washington Post Notable Book
A brilliant evocation of the qualities that made FDR one of the most beloved and greatest of American presidents.
Drawing on archival material, public speeches, correspondence and accounts by those closest to Roosevelt early in his career and during his presidency, H. W. Brands shows how Roosevelt transformed American government during the Depression with his New Deal legislation, and carefully managed the country's prelude to war. Brands shows how Roosevelt's friendship and regard for Winston Churchill helped to forge one of the greatest alliances in history, as Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin maneuvered to defeat
Germany and prepare for post-war Europe.
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H.W. Brands' Traitor to His Class, The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the finest one volume biography of FDR. It eclipses Jean Edward Smith's recent entry on this well covered topic. What makes Brands' work superior is his research, his opinions and his balance.
Brands. "He (FDR) believed in democracy - in the capacity of ordinary Americans, exercising their collective judgment, to address the ills that afflicted their society. He refused to rely ... Read More
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This book is sorely disappointing. Brand glosses over many details of FDR's, Eleanor's, and Sara's lives and instead offers blithe assumptions that simply do not match the many other, more thoroughly researched bios out there. I feel like this bio provides a skewed version of simply the author's take on these vibrant historical figures rather than full, honest fact. I recommend reading Geoffrey Ward's two-book bio, "A First-Class Temperment" and "Sound of the Trumpet" instead.
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I admire FDR and have an active interest in him, but I'm only 20 or so pages in this the silly hagiography and I'm expecting to read that when as a child, "Franklin reachethed out and touched a lamb upon the forelock and lo! It slew it's thousandfold foe-men."
Almost any other biographical writing concerning Roosevelt is better than this effort.
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A very well written book about a president who faced severe trials and did the things he felt were right even though there was a high level of political risk from all sides. Well documented and factual with significant detail regarding FDR's personal life including his disability caused by polio.
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In the landscape of historical books there is a plethora of long gone forests expended in describing the life and times of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I have read two rather distinctive and thorough accounts of FDR being Conrad Black's "Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Champion of Freedom" and Doris Kearns Goodwin's "No Ordinary Time". Both these books were outstanding works and gave excellent perspectives on FDR's life. However, what H.W. Brands has done is to answer the ultimate question of this privileged ... Read More
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