Before the Trumpet
Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905
$36.03
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
9 September 2014
Summary
From revered and award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward, an astonishing, novelistic account–the most complete to date–of the early life and lineage of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. First time in Vintage trade paperback.
Before Pearl Harbor, before polio and his entry into politics, FDR was a handsome, pampered, but strong-willed youth, the center of a rarefied world. In Before the Trumpet, the award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward transports the reader to that world—Hyde Pa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780804173339 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0804173338 |
| Author: | Geoffrey C. Ward |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 9 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 378g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Critics Review
“Suffused with magic … a wonderful book.” —John Lukacs, The Philadelphia Enquirer“An engrossing biography … Magnificent social history … a triumph of scholarly detective work.”—The New Yorker“The freshest and most penetrating study of the young FDR.” —Chicago Sunday Tribune“The texture is … richer, the detail more finely tuned than in any other portrait.” —The New York Times Book Review“Quite the best thing I have ever read about FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt. The wonder is that [it] unearths so much new and revealing material—letters, conversations, insights … appealing and inspiring.”—Atlanta Constitution
About The Author
Geoffrey C. Ward
Geoffrey C. Ward is the coauthor of The Civil War (with Ken Burns and Ric Burns), and the author of A First-Class Temperament- The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and the 1990 Francis Parkman Prize.
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