Geoffrey C. Ward: The Roosevelts

Geoffrey C. Ward, distilling more than thirty years of thinking and writing about the Roosevelts.
ISBN: 9780307700230
Author: Geoffrey C. Ward; Ken Burns
Page: 503
Binding: Hard cover
Publication date: 2014
Format: Book
Publisher: KNOPF, ALFRED A
Language: English

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Price: 15 425 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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Geoffrey C. Ward, distilling more than thirty years of thinking and writing about the Roosevelts, and the acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns help us understand for the first time that, despite the fierce partisanship of their eras, the Roosevelts were far more united than divided.

All the history the Roosevelts made is here, but this is primarily an intimate account, the story of three people who overcame obstacles that would have undone less forceful personalities.

Theodore Roosevelt would push past childhood frailty, outpace depression, survive terrible grief—and transform the office of the presidency.

Eleanor Roosevelt, orphaned and alone as a child, would endure her husband’s betrayal, battle her own self-doubts, and remake herself into themost consequential first lady in American history—and the most admired woman on earth.

And Franklin Roosevelt, born to privilege and so pampered that most of his youthful contemporaries dismissed him as a charming lightweight...

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