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Franklin Delano Roosevelt : champion of freedom / Conrad Black.

Black, Conrad. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 1586481843
  • ISBN: 9781586481841
  • Physical Description: viii, 1280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Public Affairs, [2003]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1187-1214) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I Predestined Squire, 1882-1932 -- Chapter 1 "I Like You and Trust You and Believe in You ... and Golden Years Open before You" 3 -- Chapter 2 "The Hardest Trader I've Ever Run Against" 45 -- Chapter 3 "That Battle Can Still Be Won" 85 -- Chapter 4 "Trial By Fire" 137 -- Chapter 5 "Devote That Intelligent Mind of Yours to the Problems of the State" 178 -- Part II Great Depression and the New Deal, 1932-1938 -- Chapter 6 "Stay Alive 'til November" 225 -- Chapter 7 "His Essence Was Force ... the Relish of Power, and Command" 268 -- Chapter 8 "Never Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand Is Doing" 317 -- Chapter 9 "Franklin Is on His Own Now" 364 -- Chapter 10 "Save the Constitution From the Court and the Court From Itself" 404 -- Part III Toward the Rendezvous with Destiny--Undeclared War, 1938-1941 -- Chapter 11 "I Believe It Is Peace in Our Time" 455 -- Chapter 12 "Mr. Roosevelt, You Perhaps Believe That Your Intervention ... Can Be Effective Anywhere" 507 -- Chapter 13 "They Are Already Almost at the Boats!" 549 -- Chapter 14 "Whither Thou Goest, I Go ... Even to the End" 601 -- Chapter 15 President Roosevelt Will "Make War without Declaring It" 648 -- Part IV Day of Infamy and Years of Courage, 1941-1944 -- Chapter 16 "We Shall Never Cease ... Until They Have Been Taught a Lesson They and the World Will Never Forget" 683 -- Chapter 17 "Why Are You So Afraid of the Germans? Troops Must Be Blooded in Battle" 728 -- Chapter 18 "He Is the Greatest Man I Have Ever Known" 764 -- Chapter 19 "Roosevelt Recognized the Importance of Capturing Berlin as Both a Political and a Psychological Factor" 808 -- Chapter 20 "Always the Underdog ... I am Sick at Heart at the Mistakes and Lost Opportunities that are so Prevalent" 849 -- Part V Pax Americana, 1944- -- Chapter 21 "OK, Let's Go" 901 -- Chapter 22 "It Was Difficult to Contradict This Artist, This Seducer" 947 -- Chapter 23 "Where Is Task Force 34, the World Wonders?" 998 -- Chapter 24 "In His Sensitive Hands Lay Much of the World's Fate" 1041 -- Chapter 25 "His Voice Is Silent But His Courage Is Not Spent" 1091.
Subject:
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.

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