{"product_id":"fdr","title":"FDR","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - \"A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man\" - Jonathan Yardley, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eOne of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate  book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean  Edward Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source  material to provide an engrossing narrative of one of America’s greatest presidents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine details. We see how Roosevelt’ s restless energy, fierce intellect, personal magnetism, and ability to project effortless  grace permitted him to master countless challenges throughout his life. Smith recounts  FDR’s battles with polio and physical disability, and how these experiences helped  forge the resolve that FDR used to surmount the economic turmoil of the Great Depression  and the wartime threat of totalitarianism. Here also is FDR’s private life depicted  with unprecedented candor and nuance, with close attention paid to the four women  who molded his personality and helped to inform his worldview: His mother, Sara Delano  Roosevelt, formidable yet ever supportive and tender; his wife, Eleanor, whose counsel  and affection were instrumental to FDR’s public and individual achievements; Lucy  Mercer, the great romantic love of FDR’s life; and Missy LeHand, FDR’s longtime secretary,  companion, and confidante, whose adoration of her boss was practically limitless.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Smith also tackles head-on and in-depth the numerous failures and miscues of Roosevelt’ s public career, including his disastrous attempt to reconstruct the Judiciary; the  shameful internment of Japanese-Americans; and Roosevelt’s occasionally self-defeating  Executive overreach. Additionally, Smith offers a sensitive and balanced assessment  of Roosevelt’s response to the Holocaust, noting its breakthroughs and shortcomings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Summing up Roosevelt’s legacy, Jean Smith declares that FDR, more than any other  individual, changed the relationship between the American people and their government.  It was Roosevelt who revolutionized the art of campaigning and used the burgeoning  mass media to garner public support and allay fears. But more important, Smith gives  us the clearest picture yet of how this quintessential Knickerbocker aristocrat,  a man who never had to depend on a paycheck, became the common man’s president. The  result is a powerful account that adds fresh perspectives and draws profound conclusions  about a man whose story is widely known but far less well understood. Written for  the general reader and scholars alike, \u003ci\u003eFDR\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning biography in every way worthy  of its subject.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50954867179808,"sku":"9780812970494","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780812970494.jpg?v=1763696640","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/fdr","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}