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Lelyveld, Joseph
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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Last years.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945.
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Lelyveld, Joseph
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Last years.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945.
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His
final
battle
: the
last
months
of
Franklin
Roosevelt
/ Joseph Lelyveld.
by
Lelyveld, Joseph
Alfred A. Knopf, c2016.
Call #:
973.917092 L543h
Subjects
Roosevelt
,
Franklin
D. (
Franklin
Delano), 1882-1945 --
Last
years.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945.
ISBN:
9780385350792 (hc)
0385350791 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
401 p. : ill., photos ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"This is a Borzoi Book."--T.p. verso
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-381) and index.
Contents:
Plaintive -- Uncle Joe in Tehran -- Wilson's shadow -- His "enormous" heart -- Somewhere in the South -- Going after "bigger coins" -- The Great Tantalizer -- Commander in Chief -- Staying on the job -- Gallant, and pitiable -- At the Czar's palace -- Almost to victory -- In his wake.
Summary:
"Untangles the narrative threads of
Roosevelt
's
final
months
, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax"--Dust jacket flap.
"'By far the most enigmatic leading figure' of World War II. That's how the British military historian John Keegan described
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
, who frequently left his contemporaries guessing, never more so than at the end of his life. Here, in an insightful account, a prizewinning author and journalist untangles the narrative threads of
Roosevelt
's
final
months
, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax. The story has been told piecemeal but never like this, with a close focus on
Roosevelt
himself and his hopes for a stable international order after the war, and how these led him into a prolonged courtship of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, involving secret, arduous journeys to Tehran and the Crimea. In between, as the war entered its
final
phase, came the thunderbolt of a dire medical diagnosis, raising urgent questions about the ability of the longest-serving president to stand for a fourth term at a time when he had little choice. Neither his family nor top figures in his administration were informed of his diagnosis, let alone the public or his closest ally, Winston Churchill. With D-Day looming,
Roosevelt
took a month off on a plantation in the South where he was examined daily by a navy cardiologist, then waited two more
months
before finally announcing, on the eve of his party's convention, that he'd be a candidate. A political grand master still, he manipulated the selection of a new running mate, with an eye to a possible succession, displaying some of his old vigor and wit in a winning campaign. With precision and compassion, Joseph Lelyveld examines the choices
Roosevelt
faced, shining new light on his state of mind, preoccupations, and motives, both as leader of the wartime alliance and in his personal life. Confronting his own mortality,
Roosevelt
operated in the belief that he had a duty to see the war through to the end, telling himself he could always resign if he found he couldn't carry on. Lelyveld delivers an incisive portrait of this deliberately inscrutable man, a consummate leader to the very
last
."--Dust jacket.
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