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| Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Franklin D Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin D Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin D Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| ISBN: | 0671642405 9780671642402 0684804484 9780684804484 |
| OCLC Number: | 30736131 |
| Description: | 759 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | "The decisive hour has come" -- "A few nice boys with BB guns" -- "Back to the Hudson" -- "Living here is very oppressive" -- "No ordinary time" -- "I am a juggler" -- "I can't do anything about her" -- "Arsenal of democracy" -- "Business as usual" -- "A great hour to live" -- "A completely changed world" -- "Two little boys playing soldier" -- "What can we do to help?" -- "By god, if it ain't Old Frank!" -- "We are striking back" -- "The greatest man I have ever known" -- "It is blood on your hands" -- "It was a sight I will never forget" -- "I want to sleep and sleep" -- "Suspended in space" -- "The old master still had it" -- "So darned busy" -- "It is good to be home" -- "Everybody is crying" -- "A new country is being born" -- Afterword. |
| Responsibility: | Doris Kearns Goodwin. |
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Abstract:
"Using diaries, interviews, and White House records of the president's and first lady's comings and goings, Goodwin paints a detailed, intimate portrait not only of the daily conduct of the presidency during wartime but of the Roosevelts themselves and their extraordinary constellation of friends, advisers, and family, many of whom lived with them in the White House: Missy LeHand, FDR's "other wife" and secretary; Harry Hopkins, FDR's closest friend and adviser; the president's indomitable mother, Sara; the Roosevelts' daughter, Anna; Eleanor's close friends Lorena Hickock and Joe Lash; Crown Princess Martha of Norway; FDR's former lover Lucy Rutherfurd, who, in a final, painful blow to Eleanor, was with him when he died." "Bringing to bear the tools of both history and biography, as well as her great talent for capturing larger-than-life characters, Goodwin relates the unique story of how Franklin Roosevelt, surrounded by his small circle of intimates, led the nation to military victory abroad against seemingly insurmountable odds and, with Eleanor's essential help, forever changed the fabric of American society."--BOOK JACKET.
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