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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Lelyveld, Joseph.     Subjects     Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Last years.     Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Health.     Presidents -- United States -- Biography.     Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1944.     World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.     United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lelyveld, Joseph.       by title:      His final battle : t...       by call number:      LP 973.917 R781L     Search the Web     Lelyveld, Joseph.     Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Last years.     Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Health.     Presidents -- United States -- Biography.     Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1944.     World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.     United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945.       MARC Display

His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt / Joseph Lelyveld. by Lelyveld, Joseph. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016. Call #: LP 973.917 R781L Subjects Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Last years.   Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Health.   Presidents -- United States -- Biography.   Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1944.   World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.   United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.   United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945. ISBN:  9781410495198 (hc.) Edition:  Large print edition. Description:  727 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes:  "The text of this Large Print edition is unabridged"--Verso of title page. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 705-721). Contents:  Prologue: Feeling 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. Summary:  "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. Journalist Joseph Lelyveld 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 is told 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. 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. 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"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Home Delivery - HN Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 973.917 R781L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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