Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The American Presidents Series: The 32nd President 1933-1945

A masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Gladstone. A protean figure and a man of massive achievement Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief executives no more than three of his predecessors could truly be placed in contention with his standing and of his successors there are so far none. . In acute stylish prose Roy Jenkins tackles all of the nuances and intricacies of FDRs character. He was a skilled politician with astounding flexibility; he oversaw an incomparable mobilization of American industrial and military effort; and all the while he aroused great loyalty and dazzled those around him with his personal charm. Despite several setbacks and one apparent catastrophe his life was buoyed by the influence of Eleanor who was not only a wife but an adviser and one of the twentieth centurys greatest political reformers. . Nearly complete before Jenkinss death in January 2003 this volume was finished by historian Richard Neustadt.