Author : Shannon Butler
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2020-08-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781540243850
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his family may be most remembered for their time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but it was the Hudson Valley they called home. In Manhattan, the president's mother built a townhome on East Sixty-Fifth Street, and Eleanor was bo
Author : Robert Klara
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0230105939
The April 1945 journey of FDR's funeral train became a thousand-mile odyssey, fraught with heartbreak and scandal. As it passed through the night, few of the grieving onlookers gave thought to what might be happening behind the Pullman shades, where women whispered and men tossed back highballs. Inside was a Soviet spy, a newly widowed Eleanor Roosevelt, who had just discovered that her husband's mistress was in the room with him when he died, all the Supreme Court justices, and incoming president Harry S. Truman who was scrambling to learn secrets FDR had never shared with him. Weaving together information from long-forgotten diaries and declassified Secret Service documents, journalist and historian Robert Klara enters the private world on board that famous train. He chronicles the three days during which the country grieved and despaired as never before, and a new president hammered out the policies that would galvanize a country in mourning and win the Second World War.
Author : Curtis Roosevelt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1612349013
Curtis Roosevelt knew what it was like to live with a president. His grandfather was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From the time Curtis, with his sister, Eleanor, and recently divorced mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, moved into his grandparents’ new home—the White House—Curtis played, learned, slept, ate, and lived in one of the most famous buildings in the world with one of its most famous residents. Curtis Roosevelt offers anecdotes and revelations about the lives of the president and First Lady and the many colorful personalities in this presidential family. From Eleanor’s shocking role in the remarriage of Curtis’s mother to visits from naughty cousins and trips to the “Home Farm,” Upstairs at the Roosevelts’ provides an intimate perspective on the dynamics of one of America’s most famous families and those who visited, were friends, and sometimes even enemies.
Author : Elliott Roosevelt
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Creates an intimate portrait of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt as individuals, husband and wife, and world leaders, as witnessed by their son.
Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site (Hyde Park, N.Y.)
ISBN :
Author : Roger Daniels
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252097629
Franklin D. Roosevelt, consensus choice as one of three great presidents, led the American people through the two major crises of modern times. The first volume of an epic two-part biography, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939 presents FDR from a privileged Hyde Park childhood through his leadership in the Great Depression to the ominous buildup to global war. Roger Daniels revisits the sources and closely examines Roosevelt's own words and deeds to create a twenty-first century analysis of how Roosevelt forged the modern presidency. Daniels's close analysis yields new insights into the expansion of Roosevelt's economic views; FDR's steady mastery of the complexities of federal administrative practices and possibilities; the ways the press and presidential handlers treated questions surrounding his health; and his genius for channeling the lessons learned from an unprecedented collection of scholars and experts into bold political action. Revelatory and nuanced, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939 reappraises the rise of a political titan and his impact on the country he remade.
Author : David B. Woolner
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0465096514
A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions The first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without equal in American history. Yet as historian David B. Woolner reveals, the last hundred might very well surpass them in drama and consequence. Drawing on new evidence, Woolner shows how FDR called on every ounce of his diminishing energy to pursue what mattered most to him: the establishment of the United Nations, the reinvigoration of the New Deal, and the possibility of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. We see a president shorn of the usual distractions of office, a man whose sense of personal responsibility for the American people bore heavily upon him. As Woolner argues, even in declining health FDR displayed remarkable political talent and foresight as he focused his energies on shaping the peace to come.
Author : Geoffrey C. Ward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439103143
Diary entries and letters from Franklin D. Roosevelt and his private secretary Margaret Suckley offer unique insight into the character of the president and his struggles with disability.
Author : Joseph Lelyveld
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 034580659X
A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Foreign Affairs, Bloomberg In March 1944, as World War II raged and America’s next presidential election loomed, Franklin D. Roosevelt was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Driven by a belief that he had a duty to see the war through to the end, Roosevelt concealed his failing health and sought a fourth term—a term that he knew he might not live to complete. With unparalleled insight and deep compassion, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Joseph Lelyveld delves into Roosevelt’s thoughts, preoccupations, and motives during his last sixteen months, which saw the highly secretive Manhattan Project, the roar of D-Day, the landmark Yalta Conference and FDR’s hopes for a new world order—all as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax. His Final Battle delivers an extraordinary portrait of this famously inscrutable man, who was full of contradictions but a consummate leader to the very last.
Author : David B. Roosevelt
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 044655099X
Until her death when he was 20, David B. Roosevelt enjoyed a close relationship with his grandmother Eleanor Roosevelt. Now David shares personal family stories and photographs that show Eleanor as she really was.
