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<i>FDR: The War President</i> opens as Roosevelt has been re-elected to a third term and the United States is drifting toward a war that has already engulfed Europe. Roosevelt, as commander in chief, statesman, and politician, must navigate a delicate balance between helping those in Europe—while remaining mindful of the forces of isolation both in the Congress and the country—and protecting the gains of the New Deal, upon which he has spent so much of his prestige and power.<br> <br> Kenneth S. Davis draws vivid depictions of the lives, characters, and temperaments of the military and political personalities so paramount to the history of the time: Churchill, Stalin, de Gaulle, and Hitler; Generals Marshall, Eisenhower, and MacArthur; Admiral Darlan, Chiang Kai-shek, Charles Lindbergh, William Allen White, Joseph Kennedy, Averell Harriman, Harry Tru-man, Robert Murphy, Sidney Hillman, William Knud-sen, Cordell Hull, Henry Morgenthau, Henry Stimson, A. Philip Randolph, Wendell Willkie, and Henry Wallace.<br> <br> The portrait of Henry Hopkins, who interacted with many of these personalities on behalf of Roosevelt, is woven into this history as the complex, interconnected relationsh

Author

Davis, Kenneth Sydney, 1912-

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679415428

Subjects

History, Biography, Political Science

Rating

4.4 / 5 (24 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14