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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chronology -- Abbreviations and Code Names -- 1 The Paradox of Power -- 2 The Power of Patrician Upbringing, 1882-1911 -- 3 Power in Albany and Washington, 1911-21 -- 4 The Fight to Regain Power, 1…
An important addition to the 'Profiles in Power' series, this critical biography looks at Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most dominant US politician of the 1930s and 1940s. Roosevelt led the United States through the two great crises of the Depression and the Second World War.
"In the 1930s and 40s America was ravaged by unemployment, poverty and conflict. Franklin D. Roosevelt led the country through the two great crises of mass unemployment and the Second World War in a style that leads Patrick Renshaw to call him 'the most important President of th…
An important addition to the "Profiles in Power series," this critical biography looks at Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most dominant US politician of the 1930s and 1940s. Renshaw argues that Roosevelt used the second world war to make America the greatest power on earth and that h…