Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Del

Description: Traitor to His Class by H.W. Brands Drawing on archival materials, public speeches, personal correspondence, and accounts by family and close associates, acclaimed bestselling historian and biographer Brands offers a compelling and intimate portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelts life and career. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A brilliant evocation of one of the greatest presidents in American history by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War "It may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for many years to come." —The Christian Science Monitor Drawing on archival material, public speeches, correspondence and accounts by those closest to Roosevelt early in his career and during his presidency, H. W. Brands shows how Roosevelt transformed American government during the Depression with his New Deal legislation, and carefully managed the countrys prelude to war. Brands shows how Roosevelts friendship and regard for Winston Churchill helped to forge one of the greatest alliances in history, as Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin maneuvered to defeat Germany and prepare for post-war Europe.Look for H.W. Brandss other biographies: THE FIRST AMERICAN (Benjamin Franklin), ANDREW JACKSON, THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S. Grant), and REAGAN. Author Biography H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class. Review "Wonderful. . . . Rich in insights and fresh perspectives. . . . Brands is something of a rare breed. . . . This volume shows the precision and attention to detail that one would expect from a scholar and, at the same time, reads like a novel. . . . It may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for many years to come." —The Christian Science Monitor "Excellent. . . . If you want to understand how a great president should act, Traitor to His Class is must reading." —The New York Observer "[Roosevelt] was an extraordinarily complicated man and the author copes skilfully with his complexity. . . . Mr. Brands is masterly." —The Economist "A graceful account of this complex, controversial, political genius who, everyone agrees, changed the course of history. Well-researched and exquisitely detailed." —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Fresh, approachable, even-handed." —Boston Globe "H. W. Brands has accomplished a remarkable feat in this terrific work. As if he were creating characters in a novel, he has brought to vivid life the central figures in his story—FDR, Eleanor, Sara Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the inner circle in the White House—while at the same time providing a fresh understanding of the rich historical context for their thoughts and actions at every step along the way." —Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Team of Rivals Review Quote "Wonderful.... This may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for many years to come." -The Christian Science Monitor "Excellent.... A sweeping account that adores its subject.... If you want to understand how a great president should act,Traitor to His Classis must reading." -The New York Observer "Fresh, approachable, even-handed.... H. W. Brands, the gifted University of Texas historian, has produced...an exhaustive but not exhausting biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt." -The Boston Globe "Brilliantly executed.... Lean, with no fatty padding or sermonizing. Brands is resolutely evenhanded in his treatment of FDR, and he makes no attempt to persuade his readers of FDRs virtues or lack thereof." -Dallas Morning News "If you havent read much about FDRs life, this is a good place to start. If you have, this is a good place to get reacquainted. As events continue to swirl around us, you will sometimes feel eerily at home." -Providence Journal "Well-researched and exquisitely detailed, Brands effort does not ignore Roosevelts foibles and failures, personal and public." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "H.W. Brands is a master at Excerpt from Book Franklin Roosevelts Sunday morning began as most of his Sundays began: with a cigarette and the Sunday papers in bed. He wasnt a regular churchgoer, conFining his attendance mainly to special occasions: weddings, funerals, his three inaugurations. In his youth and young adulthood he had often spent Sundays on the golf course, but his golFing days were long over, to his lasting regret. This Sunday morningthe First Sunday of December 1941he read about himself in the papers. The New York Times gave him the top head, explaining how he had sent a personal appeal for peace to the Japanese emperor. Neither the Times nor the Washington Post, which provided similar coverage, included the substance of his appeal, as he had directed the State Department to release only the fact of his having approached the emperor. This way he got credit for his efforts on behalf of peace without having to acknowledge how hopeless those efforts were. The papers put the burden of warmongering on Japan; the government in Tokyo declared that its "patience" with the Western powers was at an end. Heavy movements of Japanese troops in occupied Indochinamovements about which Roosevelt had quietly released corroborating informationsuggested an imminent thrust against Thailand or Malaya. Sharing the headlines with the prospect of war in the Pacific was the reality of war in the Atlantic and Europe. The German offensive against the Soviet Union, begun the previous June, seemed to have stalled just short of Moscow. Temperatures of twenty below zero were punishing the German attackers, searing their flesh and freezing their crankcases. The Germans were forced to find shelter from the cold; the front apparently had locked into place for the winter. On the Atlantic, the British had just sunk a German commerce raider, or so they claimed. The report from the war zone was sketchy and unconfirmed. The admiralty in London volunteered that its cruiser Dorsetshire had declined to look for survivors, as it feared German submarines in the area. Roosevelt supposed hed get the details from Winston Churchill. The president and the prime minister shared a love of the sea, and Churchill, since assuming his current ofFice eighteen months ago, had made a point of apprising Roosevelt of aspects of the naval war kept secret from others outside the British government. Churchill and Roosevelt wrote each other several times a week; they spoke by telephone less often but still regularly. An inside account of the war was the least the prime minister could provide, as Roosevelt was furnishing Churchill and the British the arms and equipment that kept their struggle against Germany alive. Until now Roosevelt had left the actual Fighting to the British, but he made certain they got what they needed to remain in the battle. The situation might change at any moment, though, the Sunday papers implied. The Navy Departmentwhich was to say, Roosevelthad just ordered the seizure of Finnish vessels in American ports, on the ground that Finland had become a de facto member of the Axis alliance. Navy secretary Frank Knox, reporting to Congress on the war readiness of the American eet, assured the legislators that it was "second to none." Yet it still wasnt strong enough, Knox said. "The international situation is such that we must arm as rapidly as possible to meet our naval defense requirements simultaneously in both oceans against any possible combination of powers concerting against us." Roosevelt read these remarks with satisfaction. The president had long prided himself on clever appointments, but no appointment had tickled him more than his tapping of Knox, a Republican from the stronghold of American isolationism, Chicago. By reaching out to the Republicansnot once but twice: at the same time that he chose Knox, Roosevelt named Republican Henry Stimson secretary of warthe president signaled a desire for a bipar Details ISBN0307277941 Author H.W. Brands Short Title TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS Language English ISBN-10 0307277941 ISBN-13 9780307277947 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 973.917092 Year 2009 Residence Austin, TX, US Affiliation University of Texas Subtitle The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2009-09-08 NZ Release Date 2009-09-08 US Release Date 2009-09-08 Place of Publication New York UK Release Date 1900-01-01 Pages 912 Publisher Random House USA Inc Publication Date 2009-09-08 Illustrations 16 PP B&W Audience General Imprint Vintage Books We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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