The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

New York Times BestsellerÂ

A vivid and personal portrait of Americaâ€™s greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation, which expands on the hugely acclaimed seven-part PBS documentary series, bringing readers even deeper into these extraordinary leadersâ€™ lives
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With 796 photographs, some never before seen
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The authors of the acclaimed and best-selling The Civil War, Jazz, The War, and Baseball present an intimate history of three extraordinary individuals from the same extraordinary familyâ€”Theodore, Eleanor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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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 griefâ€”and transform the office of the presidency.

Eleanor Roosevelt, orphaned and alone as a child, would endure her husbandâ€™s betrayal, battle her own self-doubts, and remake herself into the most consequential first lady in American historyâ€”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, would summon the strength to lead the nation through the two greatest crises since the Civil War, though he could not take a single step unaided.

The three were towering personalities, but The Roosevelts shows that they were also flawed human beings who confronted in their personal lives issues familiar to all of us: anger and the need for forgiveness, courage and cowardice, confidence and self-doubt, loyalty to family and the need to be true to oneself. This is the story of the Rooseveltsâ€”no other American family ever touched so many lives.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-09-09
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-09-09
Format	Kindle eBook

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

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