Lelyveld, Joseph

His Final Battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt / Joseph Lelyveld - First edition. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2016 - 399 p. : illus. ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-381) and index.

Prologue: feeling plaintive -- Uncle Joe in Tehran -- Wilson's shadow -- 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.

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.


English.

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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

E807 / .L37 2016

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