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A vivid and personal portrait of America's greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation--the companion volume to the seven-part PBS documentary series With 796 photographs, some never before seen 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 family--Theodore, Eleanor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 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 grief--and transform the office of the presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt, orphaned and alone as a child, would endure her husband's betrayal, battle her own self-doubts, and remake herself into

Who reads The Roosevelts : An Intimate History?

Author

Ward, Geoffrey C., Burns, Ken

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307700230

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.43 / 5 (236 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14